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of his budgets, proposed cutting capital gains taxes in half for a landowner who sells land or an easement to a government conservation agency or conservation nonprofit. This would enable conservation dollars to buy more, and gives every landowner a reason to at least consider a sale for conservation, rather than for development. The land would have to be held for conservation purposes, and couldn’t later be sold for development without severe penalties.
Who supports
these proposals?
Each of the listed organizations has signed a letter in support of these incentives.
The American Farm Bureau Federation has written a letter in support of the President’s capital gains tax cut proposal, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has written in support of a variant of both the capital gains cut and the deduction increase, in which sales or donations to the federal government do not benefit from these incentives.
Trust for Public Land
The Conservation Fund
Land Trust Alliance
Civil War Preservation Trust
The Nature Conservancy
American Farmland Trust
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Wildlife Management Institute
American Sportfishing Association
National Audubon Society
Ducks Unlimited
Boone and Crockett Club
National Wild Turkey Federation
Ruffed Grouse Society
PheasantsF orever
Quail Unlimited
BASS
and many others.
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