The Rural Voice, 1983-12, Page 23FARM NEWS
Farm Tax Reduction Program:
Reactions from the community
Bessie Saunders, past president,
Grey County Federation of Agricul-
ture told The Rural Voice that Grey
County farmers are quite pleased that
the government has backed up on the
taxation proposal. "While the gross
production figure was not reduced as
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we had asked," she said, "neither
was it raised to the $12,000. figure, so
basically we are pleased. Also, the
government did a survey of various
municipalities around Ontario and
discovered that a majority of farmers
would pay increased property taxes if
the 100 per cent rebate program went
through. We, here in Grey County,
would have been hit harder than most
counties."
George Underwood, who served on
the property tax task force set up by
the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture, feels that Timbrell's an-
nouncement is a credit to our political
system. "There are many countries in
the world where citizens cannot speak
their minds," Underwood said. "We
live in a country where we have a
government who will listen to facts
and figures and when given informa-
tion, possibly with some pressure
from people, are willing to re-
consider thier policies and make
changes. We should be proud to live
in such a country."
Ron Christie, Perth County
Federation of Agriculture president,
believes that the opposition which
was raised in this area against the 100
per cent tax rebate proposal had a lot
to do with the government abandon-
ing the program. "But when our
regional directors were called to
Toronto on November 10 to a special
OFA board meeting, none of them
knew what was coming," Christie
said. "Timbrell's announcement of
the new 60 per cent rebate came as a
surprise to many people."
John MacAuley, Regional Direc-
tor, Bruce West, said that Timbrell's
announcement certainly came as a
surprise. "It is an improvement over
what we've had," MacAuley says,
"but it doesn't deal with the question
of people paying for people services
and land paying for service to land.
It's really a patch -up one the old
system."
Tony McQuail, Huron County
Federation of Agriculture president:
"The government has backed away
from the 100 per cent rebate. This is
in line with one of the recommenda-
tions passed by HCFA directors. We
also suggested several alternatives
which would help reform farm pro-
perty tax, but unfortunately, the pro-
vincial government appears to have
abandoned tax reform. They will be
maintaining, through legislation, the
farm tax rebate at a level of 60 per
cent.
"Fortunately OFA and the County
Federations have been successful in
getting the government to lower their
qualifying gross sales so that more
moderate size farms will be eligible.
The new level is annual sales of
$8,000 in southwestern Ontario and
$5,000 in eastern and northern On-
tario."El
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