SG-W:/ use-based tax

[Vivienne Armentrout <varmentrout000@ameritech.net>]

A press release is available (I don't have a document or online version
but the phone contact is Gary Henderson, 517-373-1725) about a new
package of bills coming from the State Senate on use-based tax for
farmland.  It is not clear to me where these are in the House.  The
4-bill package is led by Senate Resolution M (Stille), which would
require a 2/3 vote and approval by the voters in a referendum, because
it is a constitutional amendment calling for taxation of farmland at
current use, rather than highest-and-best.  The other 3 bills are
tie-barred to the amendment and implement it, as well as providing for
repayment of tax savings (if land is sold) to an agricultural
preservation bill, similar to the PA 116 program.  The package hasn't
been passed by the Senate yet but Engler has endorsed the concept.


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