Timber!


Under current law the combination of tax preferences for timber means that timber investments are subject to less than zero tax. Tax accounting should describe the economic income from timber. This proposal would treat timber as an ordinary asset, require the capitalization of all costs incurred before harvest, and allow the capitalized costs to be recovered only under cost depletion. It would also tax and capitalize the rental value of…
Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, USA
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