Group Presents Bill Offering Tax Credits for Land: Proposed Law Would Give Tax Credits Up to $500,000to Landowners Who Put Land in Conservation Easement
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By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 4--A group of farmers, ranchers, timber companies, conservationists and sportsmen are working together to save farm and ranch land from development.
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Legislators are trying to attach tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers
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Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that could save Washington residents roughly $500 annually on their federal tax returns by making state sales taxes deductible again after 18 years.
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By Stephens Washington Bureau  Stephens Washington Bureau   WASHINGTON - Ranchers would be paid to conserve rangeland vulnerable to wildfires, under a bill Nevada senators introduced on Monday.
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An influential bipartisan group of members of Congress, backed up by leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, announced yesterday that they were offering a bill in the House and Senate
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SOMERVILLE -- As many as 100,000 Massachusetts homeowners would receive up to $870 a year in tax relief under a plan unveiled by Governor Deval Patrick yesterday that relies on the state's corporate community to foot the bill.
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  DENVER - A bill designed to stop the Army from condemning private land to expand the Pion Canyon Maneuver Site made it through a House committee Tuesday, though even some of its supporters admitted it likely is unconstitutional.
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A plan to send $500-$1,000 rebates to all but the richest taxpayers advanced in the Senate Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats teamed to add aid for disabled veterans, the elderly and the unemployed to a House-passed economic recovery bill.
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The political affiliate of a national conservation group is airing radio advertisements in the districts of five House Republicans from the West, who are described by the group as having their Ã¢ÂÂheads in the sandÃ¢ÂÂ on legislative efforts to call attention to and curb global warming.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 7--In a partial win for environmentalists, Washington's state-owned forestlands could for the first time earn an environmental stamp of approval for logging practices.
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By Arlene Mart?nez, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 12--Property owners debating whether to keep their land undeveloped forever can reap better tax benefits if they do it this year.
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By Greg Edwards, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 13--Expect several bills in the 2007 General Assembly designed to  reel in government's use of eminent-domain powers, says Sen. Ken Cuccinelli,  R-Fairfax.   It will be a do-over for Virginia lawmakers.
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It's not like a business group to oppose the largest possible tax breaks for its members. But when it comes to sweetening a minimum wage bill with small business tax relief, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is backing a House proposal that is a fraction of the size of a tax package passed by the Senate.
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By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau  The measure, which encourages wildlife projects on private land, advances to the president's desk.   WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a bill by Sen.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is proposing a series of agricultural tax credits, bonds and a trust fund as part of a farm bill that would give billions in aid to farmers and pay for the nation's nutrition programs.
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By Jim Wagner, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 13--I'd been out of town for nine days -- and the first headline I read in The Log Sunday evening was this: "Landowners: Taxes will destroy Destin."  I'm hearing that more and more.
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WASHINGTON - A new study listing 46 profitable Fortune 500 companies as getting $5.4 billion in federal tax refunds last year is being used by Democrats to push for expanding the child tax credit to low-income families who don&#39;t pay income taxes.