 Forest Taxation in the United StatesFred Rogers Fairchild, R. Clifford Hall, Besse B. Day, Wade E. DeVries, Louis S. Murphy, Daniel Pingree, Roy B. Thomson and Paul W. Wager No 338331, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture Abstract: Report Forword: Taxation imposes a burden on all forms of enterprise. The business of growing forests must carry a reasonable share of the load. It is widely believed that the existing tax system imposes more than a reasonable share on forestry and discourages the use of private land for this purpose. If so, the public interest demands that this handicap be removed. The Forest Service has, over a period of years, made an exhaustive investigation of this subject through a staff of economists and foresters under the immediate direction of a leading taxation economist. This report contains the more important results of that investigation. It presents a background of facts about the existing methods of taxation and their relation to forestry. It weighs the effects of taxation on forest management. It develops the principles of sound forest taxation. Concrete proposals for applying these principles are offered. These proposals are based on the requirements of the public interest both in forestry and in taxation. Keywords: Land Economics/Use; Public Economics; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:usdami:338331 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture |
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