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Utah County staff propose 5‑year deferral option to ease technical Greenbelt rollbacks
Summary
County assessor and staff proposed a resolution to allow commissioners to defer rollback taxes for properties removed from Greenbelt because of technical legal-description or ownership changes, discussing 2‑year and 5‑year look‑back options, a proposed five‑year deferral with conditional abatement, and guardrails to prevent abuse.
County Assessor Chris Paulson and county staff presented a proposed resolution to the Utah County Commission that would let commissioners defer rollback taxes when agricultural land (Greenbelt) is removed from preferential taxation because of a technical, non‑substantive change to ownership or legal description.
Paulson said the measure targets situations where “the qualified use never changes” but a legal or ownership anomaly requires withdrawal under the Greenbelt statute. He said the commission already has authority to defer taxes in narrow circumstances but the resolution would define predictable conditions and timelines for doing so.
Paul Jones, leading the staff presentation, said the proposal seeks “predictability and consistency” and described two central evidentiary questions: how to…
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