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Understanding Conservation Easement Valuation Target audience: Appraisers, Farm Managers This 1-day course will provide the accountant, attorney and land owner with the history of the conservation easement and facts surrounding their increasing use
Valuation of Conservation Easements and Other Partial Interests in Real Estate This hands-on, how-to 3-day seminar addresses the generally accepted principles and procedures to value partial interests (not fractional ownership interests, but something less than the fee bundle of rights). The seminar provides an overview of the differences between conservation easements prepared under USPAP, UASFLA/Yellow Book and IRS requirements – and their application to partial estate valuations. Other partial interest examples and case studies encompass highway right-of-ways, power lines, pipelines and navigation easements that demonstrate how to solve complex valuation problems and report their results
The seminar provides an overview of the differences between conservation easements prepared under USPAP, UASFLA/Yellow Book and IRS requirements – and their application to partial estate valuations. Other partial interest examples and case studies encompass highway right-of-ways, power lines, pipelines and navigation easements that demonstrate how to solve complex valuation problems and report their results
06-03-2024 08:00 AM - 06-05-2024 05:00 PM MT
The ASFMRA offers specialized seminars such as Yellow Book, Valuation of Conservation Easements, Timber Property, Mineral Rights, Dairy Appraisal and a lot of other topics
Read the Full Story Big Tax Breaks on Conservation Easements Draw IRS Scrutiny In recent decades, conservation easements have succeeded in saving millions of acres of open space and wildlife habitat in the United States, becoming the leading method of preserving land from development. These easements also have generated billions of dollars in tax deductions for wealthy owners and developers, sometimes for properties with little or no public benefit, according to tax authorities, tax law specialists and Congress members. A bipartisan Senate panel found last year that the conservation tax break had given rise to a practice called syndicated easements, in which investors purchase a stake in a property with the expectation that the land will be donated for conservation
Read the Full Story New Bill Would Crack Down on Conservation Easement Tax Abuses Congress reintroduced legislation to prevent abuses of the charitable conservation easement tax break that’s supposed to protect public lands, but is often used as a tax shelter
Read the Full Story Conservation Easements Reach Milestone of Five Million Acres The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reached a milestone pertaining to conservation easements. More than five million acres of wetlands, grasslands, and farmland have been protected through USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, Inc.
720 South Colorado Boulevard, Suite 360-S
Glendale, CO 80246-2664
(303) 758-3513
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