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Huron East
defers farm
taxes for
second year
Susan Hundertmark
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Farmers in Huron East will be able to defer
their farmland property taxes until the fall
for a second year.
Huron East council decided to repeat last
year's move, leaving more than $900,000 in
the municipality's rural economy until the end
of next year, to acknowledge the farm income
crisis and show support for the farmers of the
municipality.
"The farm income crisis has continued and
many of the province's farmers face a bleak
:::int g in 2006," says a press release from
'It's not big money but it's something for
werybody. And the farmers appreciate that
council is receptive to the fact that the farm
economy is not great," says Huron East
Dsput -Clerk Brad Knight.
WhlIe Huron East made the decision to
defer farm taxes in the middle of February
hast year, the decision was made earlier this
year to give other rural municipalities a
dtanoe to follow suit.
'We're looking after our own first but the
unfortunate thing last year was other
municipalities couldn't participate if they
wanted to because moat bill their taxes on Feb.
1 It was too late for them last year," says
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Hamid Mohammadi, senior
manager with Solutions
PMO Inc., a subcontractor
with Giffels, added that
because beef packers
maintained high profits
during the BSE crisis,
farmers would do well to get
involved in the business.
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