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01/29/2024 2:19 p.m
A farmer surnamed Lin built a concrete road on his farmland and had to pay land prices and taxes for it. (Photo by reporter Yan Hongjun)
[Reporter Yan Hongjun/Changhua-Bericht]Many farmers in Beidou, Tianwei and other places in Changhua County have recently received tax payment notices from the local tax office for laying cement or asphalt on their own farmland. These farmers are pretty angry. You think about it. You let the Chairman of the People’s Party Ko Wenzhe “cheat” you. They say: “We all use farmland for agriculture.” The purpose of laying cement and asphalt is to transport crops. Unlike Ko Wenzhe, who spreads asphalt to “plant tour buses” to cultivate land for profit, not agricultural land. There is a big difference between the two for agricultural use and tax authorities should be aware of this before issuing invoices.
Although the presidential election campaign has ended, the issues surrounding it remain on the agenda. Recently, many farmers in Beidou City shouted that they were “shitty by Ko Wenzhe” because they had to pay taxes for laying cement and asphalt on their farmland. There are rumors in the local area that because the issue of Ke Wenzhe’s purchase of farmland has been aggravated, local governments are afraid of being targeted by their superiors and are strictly checking farmland for cement and asphalt pavement. If they are reported, the tax will be collected. Authorities will soon ask farmers to pay taxes.
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A farmer surnamed Lin in Beidou city said his farmland was in a valley. In order to be able to transport agricultural work and agricultural machinery, he created an earthworks path on his own farmland with a width of 3 meters and a length of 100 meters, as the dirt path is on high terrain. In the early years the roadbed was often lost and collapsed. To strengthen the roadbed, he built a concrete road. “This will be used exclusively for agricultural purposes” and not for other profitable purposes. It was peaceful like this for more than 10 years. Unexpectedly, it is closed after the presidential election. When he received the tax payment notice, he believed that the government should investigate people who “buy farmland to grow coaches and cars” instead of “thinking about it.” is profitable when they see cement on farmland” and demand payment of taxes.
Changhua District Councilor Li Junyu said he recently received complaints from people who were being held back from property value taxes due to the installation of cement and asphalt on farmland. Why did so many similar tax compensation cases arise overnight? In these cases, the laying of cement or asphalt on agricultural land was for agricultural use and there were no parking spaces or other profitable activities. The government should not “shoot when it sees a shadow,” but rather help farmers get legal use.
Officials at the county’s local tax office said agricultural land used for agriculture must be taxed as per regulations. Cement and asphalt should be laid on agricultural land, pools should be built, gardens should be laid out, walls and garages should be built around them, etc. Existing agricultural facilities or farmhouses should be supplemented or added to. Conversions such as gravel pits, parking lots, factories, warehouses, general residential buildings, etc. are in conflict with agricultural land for agricultural use and do not meet the requirements for the collection of property tax. Property value The tax is levied from the year following the change of use.
The tax office pointed out that when constructing agricultural equipment rooms, greenhouses, dry fields, farm roads and other agricultural facilities or farmhouses on agricultural land, legal permission to use or use them for agriculture must be obtained before they are used, and property taxes still remain . If the land is used again for agriculture or receives a certificate of permission or use license, an application to collect property tax can be submitted to the tax office. If the public has any questions, they can contact the Agriculture Department of the Public Office.
Farmers received tax payment notices for laying cement on their farmland. (Photo by reporter Yan Hongjun)
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