HC Deb 25 May 2004 vol 421 cc1509-10W
Nick Harvey

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will revise the tax treatment of losses made by farmers on holdings of production quotas so as to allow losses to be written off against trading profits rather than capital transaction profits; and if he will make a statement. [173913]

Dawn Primarolo

Production quotas held by unincorporated farmers are treated for tax purposes as chargeable assets and as such any losses are set against current or future chargeable gains. There are no current plans to revise this treatment.