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Farmland school tax reforms may be coming

KAP officials sense the Manitoba government might make changes during its current mandate

By Allan Dawson July 31, 2017

There was good and bad news on farmland taxes at the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) advisory council meeting here July 13. The bad news is KAP hasn’t convinced a single municipality or the Manitoba government to implement changes to reduce the tax burden on farmland. The good news is there are signs reforms to education

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KAP has a plan to tackle skyrocketing farmland taxes

But it’s going to require farmers lobby their municipal councils  and then for farmers and municipalities to pressure  the Manitoba government to act

By Allan Dawson April 28, 2017

Last fall many Manitoba farmers were shocked by double-digit increases in municipal tax bills on farmland because of its higher assessed value, but Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has a plan for relief. KAP, which has been studying the issue since last August, says on average the assessed value of Manitoba farmland in 2016 jumped 45

Manitoba farmers are all worked up over massive farmland tax increases, but they’re not ready to engage in a tax revolt just yet.

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Farmers fail to rally to tax revolt talk

But some want to know why their property taxes have  more than doubled in a year

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2016

If farmland property taxes are too high, don’t pay them. That’s what Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer suggested while commenting on Facebook about Manitoba Co-operator stories on skyrocketing farmland taxes. Is Scheurer, who faces a 95 per cent jump in his Rural Municipality of Springfield tax bill, seriously suggesting a tax revolt or being facetious? Although

As Manitoba farmers take off the crop, some are getting an unpleasant surprise in the mail in the form of a much larger-than-expected land tax bill.

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Manitoba farmers see shocking jump in land taxes

Some say it’s unfair that the big jump in land values is shifting  the municipal tax burden to farmers

By Allan Dawson September 29, 2016

Some Manitoba farmers are getting an unpleasant surprise when they open their 2016 farmland property tax bills. “I swallowed hard and wondered what was going on,” said Lowe Farm farmer Bill Toews in an interview. “I was shocked at the amount of increase, and not just in the education tax, but in municipal tax as

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