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Land use
forms new
this year
By Galen C. McBride
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Throughout the state, farmers are working with their local tax officials to get their land use assessment forms submitted on time. During the next 10 days, Rappahannock’s Commissioner of Revenue, Beverly Atkins, expects to process more than 1,100 applications covering nearly 2,000 parcels of agricultural, horticultural, or forested land in the county.
Completed land use applications must be submitted to the County Commissioner of the Revenue t>y Nov. 1 for the January-December 1998 tax year. Real estate tax payments for 1998 will then be due Dec. 5, 1998.
According to Atkins, the number of applications to be processed is especially high this year because of county-wide real estate reassessments, penerally, properties already in the land use program only require annual recertification, but a reassessment cycle triggers the requirement for a completely new application from all program participants.
This year’s reassessment is the first in six years. New guidelines for land use taxation have been approved at the state level (but will not be distributed to county offices until some time in January. All county residents interested in the program should submit their applications even though the rules have changed. ; Atkins does not believe that the changes in the regulations will affect applicants qualifying. Had there been material changes to the process, she said, the state would have made sure to get the information out to the counties.
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