Commission continues deed-transfer exemptions bundle; members note low fiscal impacts on many items

Aug 20, 2026

The commission reviewed a bundle of deed-transfer tax exemptions (six items) with FY27 fiscal-impact estimates ranging from under $50,000 to $1.2 million and voted 6–0 (3 excused) to recommend continuing the bundle; members discussed administrative cost vs. revenue tradeoffs.

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LBO staff presented a bundled set of deed-transfer tax exemptions on Aug. 19, covering six items: partition between co-owners; distributions by personal representatives; cemetery lots; exchange of permanent school fund lands; mortgage/lien foreclosure sales; and decree of marriage dissolution. Fiscal-impact estimates in the packet ranged from less than $50,000 for many items to $1.2 million for foreclosure-sale exemptions.

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