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tahir
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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tahir
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wellington womble
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I think that's the gist of them, but they do vary. Something like one partners main income must be form local farming (that can include forestry and fishing and stuff too)
I have wondered whether it is possible to be a bit sneaky about this. If my main income was from raising a few pigs etc etc, could I then sell the products to my OH for use in our family. I reckon if I sold him firewood, rented land (for the wind turbine!) and sold him all the produce (naturally at premium organic prices) then this could work. It might work better if we didn't get married (too late for Tahir, I suppose and everything would have to be run as proper business. But otherwise I think this obeys the letter of the law and also (sort of) the spirit. I'd be working the land, we get good produce, the land stays agricultural, we get to live in the country, the local comunity gets all the support we can give them. As long as they were market prices, I think this would be fair. After all, if you take goods for yourself in leui of payment, you have to declare it.
I suppose this would also work if one partner worked to support the other, who was just doing ag work, and even their income were minimal, as long as they didn't make more than 49% elsewhere, it would be within the tie.
One thing I have wondered is who checks? Obviously you can't be getting income from the land until you own it, so there must be some kind of grace period. I heard something somewhere about you must make a profit one year out of the first three. I wonder if this is a tax profit or a real one (it's much easier to make a tax profit.) Does anyone know if this would work?
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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Sarah D
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wellington womble
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Lindsay
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tahir
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wellington womble
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Lindsay
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tahir
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