Macra na Feirme and IFAC Partner for Young Farmers Development Groups in Ireland and Europe

A Macra delegation led by President Michael Gowing are currently attending the CEJA (Council of European Young Farmers) General Assembly in Brussels where Macra will officially become full members of CEJA.

The future shape and direction of the CAP post 2013 is a topic of huge importance to all farmers, however, its young farmers who are most effected by such policy changes as they are in the early phases of their farm business development . Macra has outlined the policy direction it believes CAP should follow post 2013 and the organization will be very interested in the views of the following speakers at the event: the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, representative from the DG Agri European Commission, a member of the committee on budget and a speaker from the European Economic and Social committee. The Macra delegation will also participate in a newly formed CEJA working group on CAP 2013 which is a follow on from Februarys CEJA meeting in Seville, Spain. February’s meeting was based around a debate upon the future of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy post 2013 and speakers included Paolo de Castro, the President of European Parliament’s Agricultural Committee and the Director of the WTO’s Agriculture Division expressed their views and debated the possible direction of CAP with young farmers. Macra’s participation has raised interest from our European counterparts into what we are doing from a policy perspective on the most Western side of Europe, as our northern Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh counterparts have not yet rejoined CEJA. Macra na Feirme owes much thanks to its partnership with IFAC Accountants without whose support young farmers would not be represented in Europe. Rejoining CEJA is viewed by all as an important step for Macra as the debate upon the future of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy post 2013 gets underway. Furthermore, many developments that will affect the future of Irish agriculture emanate from Brussels; therefore Macra has decided to increase its level of participation on the European stage. CEJA is made up of 26 national organisations from 21 states and 1 observer member, representing altogether around one million young farmers in Europe. The newest CEJA E-info No12 is available for download from the CEJA page of www.macra.ie, the newsletter covers CEJA News and Activities and information on the following - Common Agricultural Policy - Genetically Modified Organis - Consumers - Trade - Research and Development - EU 2020 Strategy - Climate change - Upcoming events - Supply chain - Biofuels - Cereals

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IFAC Accountants (Irish Farm Accounts Co-operative Society Limited) is owned by farmers with a board of farmer directors and in recognition of the difficult trading conditions that farmers are experiencing the board has reduced fees by 5% on invoices raised after January 1^st 2010 .


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IFAC staff are trained and developed to become specialists in providing farmers with an accountancy and taxation service. By specialising in farmer taxation, IFAC has developed an expertise in farm tax which other accountants with a more mixed bag of clients find difficult to match and because of its size, can provide specialist national back-up service which smaller accountancy practices do not have.

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Over the years, IFAC has worked closely with Macra and the IFA in order to have legislation changed and to secure reliefs which are individual to farmers e.g. Farm Buildings Pollution Control Allowance, Capital Gains Tax Retirement Relief etc.

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Over the years, the most progressive farmers have been more ready to ask for and to accept help from their advisory services. The quality and cost of the advice they get is governed greatly by the availability of information. IFAC Accountants provides this information at no extra charge in a financial management report which includes bench marking i.e. comparing your results against those farmers with a similar enterprise mix.

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Macra na Feirme & IFAC Partner for Young Farmers Development Groups in Ireland & Europe