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Tax, or special assessment taxation. If you are not familiar it is something available to farmers to get their land taxed for its value for agriculture as opposed to its fair market value for, say, development."
Of course, Rappahannock being what it is, the majority of readers will already know what land use tax is. Most know it works to help farmers retain their land as surrounding land values, and tax assessments go up by taxing farmland at a lower level. This breed of nuts and bolts work, finding ways to make it financially worthwhile to preserve forest and agricultural land is the mission of the PEC.
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