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Anybody know if you can write off new pond on your taxes?


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Are you a farmer?

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Raised a couple hogs.


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There may be conservation deductions depending on your farming situation.

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Like RAH said, there is a conservation deductions, with a few restrictions: they'll give you a tax deduction if you pledge not to develop your land (you can sell/give to a family member and they can build a house). If you sell before 10 years you have to repay the deduction that you were given.
I am not a lawyer and am just passing on what I did about 10 years ago, concerning 33A I had in GA. I took the deduction, and sold w/in 10 years and had to repay taxes...


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I wonder if the deduction would be worthwhile. Anybody know how much it is.


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If it was worth it you'd know about it.. And so would everyone else


I believe in catch and release. I catch then release to the grease..

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Your prob right BGK.


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Now if you had a farm or raised fish to sell or used it for irrigation you could prolly find an angle.. But me and you alike are screwed no tax break for us..


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In my isolated case, I think I saved about 20% per year. I didn't raise any crops or anything like that - I didn't even live there! I think the number of acres you are willing to dedicate is a factor, and it probably has to be your whole property. Again, I'm just talking about my experience...


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If you are a farmer there is a tax deduction for Soil & Water Conservation expenses. These expenses include "the construction, control, and protection of earthen dams (apparently Martian dams do not qualify), watercourses, outlets and ponds."

But you must first qualify for the expenses:

To qualify you must:

1. Be a farmer. A farm includes raising for sale: livestock, diary, poultry, fish, fruit, plantations, ranches, orchards. NOTE: The IRS defines a fish farm as an area where fish and other marine animals are grown or raised and artificially fed, protected, etc.

2. Your annual conservation expenses cannot exceed 25% of the gross income derived from farming. Therefore if you do not have any gross farm income then you do not receive any deduction for conservation expenses. (Excess conservation expenses can however be carried over to offset future farm gross income).

3. You can only deduct soil and water conservation expenses if they are consistent with a plan approved by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) . This does not need to be a site specific plan although a site specific plan certainly does qualify. The plans can also be a NRCS county plan or a comparable state agency plan.

If you are merely a pond hobbyist be careful with this deduction. There is an entire set of IRS regulations surrounding farms including what is commonly referred to as Hobby Farm regulations.

A free down loadable IRS publication, Publication 225 Farmer's Tax Guide discusses this in greater detail.

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In Georgia, we have a Conservation Use Assessment that bases taxes on the a $/acre value of use based on which basis is used used. In our case we are using timber a assessment and the value is extremely low when compared to fair market value.

When we bought the property last year it was not under the conservation assessment and the taxes were similar to what we pay for our house. After getting into the program the taxes dropped by over 90%.

The downside is that it is a 10 year covenant and if we break it, we have to pay the back taxes at 2x what we saved. If you can do the time, it's a great plan.

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Originally Posted By: Dave Davidson1
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Check into things well even for your state. Some states give tax breaks for things like irrigation , fire protection ect...

Here is your Missouri fire protection income tax credit.

http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c300-399/3200000093.htm

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In Texas we get an agriculture exemption if we farm or raise cattle. A new law was enacted a couple of years back that allowed us to switch over to a wildlife exemption from an ag exemption if we had been raising cattle and had the cattle/ag exemption for a minimum of 5 years.

Evidently, a lot of old ranchers were dying and their kids had no interest in going back to the ranch. Thus, the non ag exemption was forcing the sale of property that had been in the family for generations.

I got rid of the cows and started managing for wildlife. I have to do 4 of 7 wildlife activities. Some of them are:

Build bird houses.

Shoot feral dogs and cats

provide food plots

provide watering places

cut down trees like cedar that shade the ground and keep native grasses from growing

Shoot non indigenous wildlife like feral hogs

The property taxes on my 133 acres is about $800 per year. The majority of it is the house and 5 acres around it.

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Enjoy that tax rate Dave.. My old house was $500/month, this new place is way out in the sticks so its alot cheaper $200-250/month


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Dave...what bird species do you favor? Not too familiar with Texas species, probably a lot more resident species than we have in NE.


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Dave I really need to move to Texas..............My pond is on 35 acres and 14-16 acres of it is useless salt marsh and a tidal creek and I pay $3500 a year frown

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Same here Dave. My brother and I were somewhat surprised when we got our first property tax notice on the property we purchased in late March 2012. We have about 72 acres, 3 ponds, no house yet. We allow our neighbor via a typed up lease agreement to graze his horses, shetland pony, donkeys, and a few cows on our property to qualify for the AG exemption that was recently approved. The taxes are $85 a year. I am sure the taxes will go up some when the mini-log cabins are completed, but we've been pleased thus far.


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TJ, like most places, we are loaded with sparrows. However, we also have cardinals, mocking birds, wrens, etc. Our most beautiful bird is the bunting. They are the closest thing to technicolor that I've ever seen. However, they are extremely shy and don't live in the cities. I see them a lot in the country. To get them to come to the bird feeder just outside my house, I have to put up a piece of plywood for their privacy.

I targeted bluebirds with the bird houses and it worked. That is, they worked until squirrels and coons destroyed the houses to eat the eggs and chicks. I'm currently building more houses and will use squirrel excluders around the Tposts. I'm also going to hang a couple of houses from tree limbs. But the bluebirds are cavity nesters and I don't know whether they will buy into the idea of a windy, swinging house. Anybody have any experience with that?


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We have the Ag exemption because of our hay. We don't make a lot on the hay, but it sure is nice come tax time.

Only funny thing is the school taxes. We're 1/2 a mile inside Hopkins county, and the school taxes are lower than Rains county just next door. Thinking it's because Hopkins has a much larger tax base. Just a guess though.

It's probably hard to fund education in rural areas, when the school enrollment is larger than the town the school resides in.


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Originally Posted By: Dave Davidson1
(...) Our most beautiful bird is the bunting. They are the closest thing to technicolor that I've ever seen. However, they are extremely shy and don't live in the cities. (...) Anybody have any experience with that?


Dave:
We have indigo buntings that have taken up in our bird houses. I don't know about their nesting habits where you are, but here, they prefer low-laying brush (I have a hedge-row with a few bushes, some trees and a lot of ivy growing in it).

I'm not sure how we got them in our 3 birdhouses (Last count, we have 4 male birds, but that is just how many i have seen at one time). However, i know that the nests are not all in birdhouses, and that at least 2 of the families live in the hedge row.

Our houses are at varying heights, in various "terrain." Two of our 3 houses have buntings. one is hanging from an L bracket off of the neighbor's fence (directly to the left of the brush line), and is susceptible to the billions of squirrels I also have (thanks to having the largest oak trees in illinois....), but for some reason they seem to leave the nest alone. The second is very high up in a massive oak i have in the front yard, not near that brush line at all.

your guess is as good as mine as to how to get them to nest near your feeders. They do use my feeder, whenever the tree rats aren't trying to get to it, and I usually see them at the feeder which is also attached to the fence, about 20 yards from the birdhouse.

I do see them much more often coming out of the hedge row/brush line than any other place, and I know i am blessed to have so many on my relatively small lot.

I also have downy woodpeckers, redbellied woodpeckers, and in the neighboring woods i have at least 4 owls of varying types which often come to hunt the tree-rats. One, i am convinced, is a horned owl, just because it is massive (although the wife, the one educated in these things, says i am crazy, and its more likely to just be a very large type of barn owl or maybe a barred owl). In the winters, we are also lucky enough to have the bald eagles nesting on the mississippi bluffs, who are experts at hunting our tree rats. my little 2 acres is a bird-watcher's dream.

good luck with your nests, dave, and if anybody knows how to convince an owl to stay for keeps, let me know.

-skinny

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It might also be useful to mention that usually when i see all of the buntings together they are in my mulberry tree.

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