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Staff member proposes application amendment to help farmers avoid full tax on unfinished farm buildings
Summary
Staff proposed allowing amended applications or marking buildings under construction so partially completed farm structures can be enrolled in the first tax year they stand, addressing a Sept. 1 cutoff that can leave farmers with full-year bills.
A staff member said the tax-assessment cutoff leaves farmers liable for full-year property tax on new farm structures that aren’t finished by the Sept. 1 enrollment deadline, and proposed allowing amended applications or an application flag for buildings under construction so those structures can be enrolled in their first year of use.
"But if it's not finished by September 1, they've lost that window, and now ... it doesn't get enrolled, and therefore, they've got a full tax year where they're paying the full price of those structures," the staff member said. The…
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