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Proposal to direct sales-use taxes from large animal-ag projects to local infrastructure draws widespread support and calls for definition and limits
Summary
Senate Bill 2177 would allow counties and townships hosting large animal-feeding facilities to retain sales- and use-tax revenue tied to construction, equipment or major repairs for an infrastructure fund to pay for roads, sewer and other needs.
Senator Tom Thomas presented Senate Bill 2177 to establish an infrastructure funding mechanism for counties and townships that host large animal-feeding operations. The bill would allow political subdivisions to receive and use sales- and use-tax revenue tied to construction, equipment or major repairs for qualifying animal-ag facilities.
"The concept behind that was we as a state believe the economic activity, the economic boom to our state, as well as to that region are worth our state's investment to help those local subs bear that initial burden of those roads and of those, maybe electric or water infrastructure," Senator Thomas said, framing the bill as a tool to support locally led livestock development.
Why it matters
Supporters from commodity groups, farm organizations, local officials and the Department of Agriculture said the…
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