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valuation, working out to taxes of approximately $2 per acre—one-tenth the taxes that the average Orange farmer pays with land use.

Therefore, if the county followed anything close to the land use values recommended by the state, taxes here would go up with use value taxation. This situation will probably change, however, when the county goes to 100 per cent fair market value assessment next year.

Fred Forberg. from the State Department of Taxation, recommended to the supervisors two months ago that they consider enacting use value taxation at the same time the county makes the switch to 100 per cent fair market value

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