Tag: property tax exclusion
Property Tax Exemptions for Community & Economic Development
April 10, 2024
North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. This blog post attempts to identify which of these property tax breaks that might be re … Read more
Property Tax Breaks for Farms in NC: A Development Tool in Need of Reform?
May 8, 2012
$200 million. That’s the estimated property tax revenue North Carolina’s 100 counties defer each year under the state’s present-use value (“PUV”) property tax exclusion program for farms and other favored properties. And by “defer,” I really mean “lose,” because most of those deferred PUV taxes will … Read more