Federal Taxation of and Incentives for Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate: An Introduction with Emphasis on Farmland

Donald Abramson, Karl Gertel and James A. Lewis

No 329576, Economics Statistics and Cooperative Services (ESCS) Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: The recent interest in U.S. farmland purchases by non-resident foreign investors evidences the attractiveness of U.S. farmland to foreign investors. One source of attraction reserved exclusively for foreign investors lies in tax provisions found in the United States Tax Code and in tax treaties between the United States and other countries. This paper explores how farmland opportunities which favor the non-resident foreign investor over the United States investor can arise for the non-resident alien individual and corporate investor in United States real estates, quantifies some of the incentives for foreign farmland purchases and discusses potential consequences for land tenure and land use.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; International Relations/Trade; Land Economics/Use; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78
Date: 1978-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329576

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