May, 2017
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How Might Congress Limit Lower Passthrough Rate?
Congress and President Trump have proposed lower tax rates for pass-through income. However, this provides incentives to farmers to “game” the system to get lower rates. How might Congress try to prevent this from happening.
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Rain Makes Grain
This is a wet spring for planting corn. Similar years provide good profit opportunities in June. Will this year repeat. If so, be ready.
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Are You Taming The Deferred Tax Monster?!
The Farm Doc Daily just released a very good article on “The Deferred Tax Monster”. Make sure it is not a monster for your farm operation.
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Soybean 2016 ARC-CO Reports
We provide reports for estimated 2016 soybean ARC-CO payments based on current NASS data. Final numbers may change, however, if the report indicates no payment, it is likely this will not change.
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Only One Minnesota County to Get Soybean ARC Payment
We provide additional estimates for soybean ARC payments for Minnesota and Illinois.
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Only Two Iowa Counties Projected to Get Soybean ARC Payments
We are starting to calculate estimated 2016 soybean ARC payments. For Iowa, we expect only two counties to get 2016 soybean ARC payments, down from 51 in 2014 and 67 in 2015.
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Farm Income Appears to Stop Dropping????
The Kansas City Federal Reserve just released their latest Ag Survey. Conditions in the Western portion of their district are worse, while the Eastern portion looks to be getting better.
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More County Corn ARC data
We add four more states of 2016 corn ARC-CO estimates to be paid this fall.
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2016 ARC-CO County Data for Key Corn Belt States
I list estimated 2016 corn ARC-CO payments for key corn belt states. If you county data is not on the list, you may be able to estimate based upon your estimate of county yields.
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Where’s Waldo (Paul)?
I have gotten several queries about where I will be speaking this year. This post gives an update of my public schedule so far and also includes where Chris Hesse will be presenting our Farm Tax Update for State CPA Societies, etc.