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An analysis of factors affecting differential assessment legislation

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  • Rod Ziemer
  • Fred White
  • Ivery Clifton

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This paper has attempted to identify the factors affecting agricultural differential assessment legislation. State characteristics that were determined to be important in determining the type of legislation enacted were population density, amount of land in farms, level of property taxes, median income, farm income, age distribution, education, and recreational and other personal travel. Discriminant analysis based on these factors allowed correct classification of eighty percent of all states with one of the three types of differential assessment laws. High levels of farm income and education were found to be associated with preferential assessment laws. High levels of property taxes, median income, percentage of the population over sixty-five, and in-state household trips appeared associated with restrictive agreement laws. Predictions of the most likely type of law to be adopted by the six states without differential assessment laws as of 1977, were also presented. Results indicated that among these states, the four southeastern ones, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and West Virginia, would most likely adopt deferred taxation laws while preferential assessment and restrictive agreement laws were predicted for Kansas and Wisconsin respectively. The analysis presented deos suffer some shortcomings. First, most of the data were for 1975, while differential assessment laws have been passed in various years, beginning in 1956. However, the majority of the variables used in the analysis are not highly sensitive to time and more importantly, relative differences in their values among states probably do not vary significantly over time. Second, this study has only attempted to determine and analyze factors affecting the type of differential assessment law a state is most likly to prefer. No attempt was made to determine the reasons why, as of 1977, six states had not adopted differential assessment legislation. Rather, predictions were made as to the type of law these states would most likely prefer. Further research would be necessary to determine the reasons these states had not adopted any form of differential assessment law as of 1977. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers bv 1981

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  • Rod Ziemer & Fred White & Ivery Clifton, 1981. "An analysis of factors affecting differential assessment legislation," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 43-52, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:36:y:1981:i:1:p:43-52
    DOI: 10.1007/BF00163769
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    1. Hady, Thomas F. & Sibold, Ann Gordon, 1974. "State Programs for the Differential Assessment of Farm and Open Space Land," Agricultural Economic Reports 307503, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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    3. H. E. Conklin & W. R. Bryant, 1974. "Agricultural Districts: A Compromise Approach to Agricultural Preservation," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 56(3), pages 607-613.
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