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Tax Committee lays over several agriculture and property‑tax bills, including fencing sales‑tax exemption and riparian buffer tax relief
Summary
The House Tax Committee heard and laid over multiple bills affecting farmers and property‑tax rules: a sales‑tax exemption for fencing materials, bills to ease agricultural homestead transfer and eligibility, and a proposal to exempt riparian buffer acres from property tax and reimburse local taxing districts.
The House Tax Committee on Wednesday heard a group of bills affecting agricultural taxation and property‑tax treatment of farmland and environmental buffers and laid them over for possible inclusion in the omnibus tax bill.
Representative Nelson’s House File 969 would exempt farm fencing materials from sales tax. Supporters — including Bruce Clavin of the Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association and farmer Hannah Bernhardt (Minnesota Farmers Union) — said the change would lower start‑up and operating costs for livestock farms, help beginning farmers and support management‑intensive rotational grazing. Bernhardt described fencing as “the one and only tool that is required to make [rotational grazing] work.” Chair Gomez noted a fiscal estimate that…
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