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July 1, 1980, for qualifying landowners to receive benefits on 1981 tax bills. (The county’s only agriculture and forestal district received approval from the supervisors on Julv 7.) In addition, measures to provide tax relief for the elderly must meet the same deadline.
According to the state department of taxation, changes in personal property assessment—dropping household furnishings, farm machinery and livestock from the tax rolls—can still be authorized by the supervisors in time to be effective in 1981.
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