Farmers To Benefit From (Contlniwd from Pag* A 1) ferent interests are walking around looking for tax reform to disguise a means to raise additional revenues. I will let it up to the next legisla ture rather than allow that to hap pen,” Stauffer said. Gohl said in some situations it may make sense to keep the prop erty tax base.“ln the Pocono area where you have many summer or vacation homes and people come in to live for three or four days per week, an income tax would not add much to the revenues because these people have their official residence out of the state. Part time property owners use the ser vices that create a heavy cost to the community. ‘‘But in other parts of the state where you have a large citizen population it makes sense to use the income tax. That way the per sons with larger incomes will pay for the community services. And the equity that has been put into a property many years earlier will not be taxed as vigorously,” Gohl said. Both Gohl and Stauffer agree that even the income tax method should not be pushed too hard. Boyd Wolff, state ag secretary, said the task force set up by Cover- ENERGY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME myu -S*f Get the most out of your dairy cows with Purina’s High Energy Team of Maxi-Tech" Products: MT 40% MT 16% All the above high energy products are formulated to help you put more milk in the tank! Give us a call today to leant more about how we can help you make more milk. 6S. VinUft Rd. Paradise, PA 17962 (717)442-4183 (717)768-3301 * Registered trademark of Ralston Purina Company nor Robert Casey in August of 1987 made recommendations that said any tax reform should be fair, be voluntary to the local communi ty, produce adequate and stable revenue and provide no windfalls to governments at taxpayers’ expense. Under the income tax proposal, the present state tax base would be used. Thus, social security, retire ment benefits, and unemployment and workmen’s compensation would not be taxed. Where a senior citizen. qualifies for the property tax rebate provision, no income tax would be collected. The sales tax would be struc tured so that the county govern ment could receive sales tax revenues to reduce property taxes and at the same time share revenues, according to formula, a portion with municipal govern ments in their counties. Controls are built into the prop osals so that local governments may not collect large amounts of additional taxes because of the change in the tax system. Before any local government can imple ment any provision of the new tax law, it must form a citizens’ com mittee to look at the tax base, find MT 32% FF MTIB% MF2O% TM - Registered trademark of Purina Mills. kssMuis 8. r PURINA EHDWSj Tax Reform what revenues are now generated and determine what makes sense for the future of their community. In addition, a ceiling is placed on each county so that the cap may not be exceeded. “Agriculture will be very fortu nate if we can get this tax reform bill,” Wolff said. “The bill mainly provides for real property tax relief by reducing real estate taxes up to 30 percent on the entire farm if the farm is the primary residence of the farmer,” Wolff said. “The pro vision will shift the burden of taxes from a real property base to a non real property base. Tax revenues will come from income taxes and sales taxes.” Even reassessment of property values will be more palatable if less emphasis is placed on property taxers. “When 76 percent of revenues come from property tax es and you reduce this burden down to SO percent, I think you will find that when people’s prop erties are reassessed, their reaction will not be as violent as they are now,” Gohl said. 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