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	Overview Real property taxes are often blamed as one cause for the loss of farmland. Stories abound of farmers forced under due to rising tax bills, and in several studies people who’ve quit farming identify high taxes as one reason they quit. Because the size of a real property tax bill is based on the value of the land owned, and not the amount of money earned on that land, it is not based on the landowners’ ability-to-pay. This can create special hardships for farmers and others with land, but relatively low cash flow. This extension site and bulletin examines the relationship between gross farm income and real property taxes in Pennsylvania, using results from a study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. It is intended to help you better understand farming in Pennsylvania, local taxes, and the impact of real property taxes on farms. Materials include a printed extension bulletin that outlines the project and statewide results (available soon on-line in PDF format, and at your local Penn State Cooperative Extension office), and county-level results designed to supplement the printed bulletin.
	Statewide results Available in paper copy through your county's Penn State Cooperative Extension office, or here in PDF format.
	Retrieve results for your county Use the pull-down menu to select your county, and press "Get results!" to retrieve a PDF copy of the results for your county.  The county-summary is intended to supplement the Penn State Cooperative Extension bulletin "Real Property Taxes and Farm Income in Pennsylvania."   Select Your County: - No Selection - Adams Allegheny Armstrong Beaver Bedford Berks Blair Bradford Bucks Butler Cambria Cameron Carbon Centre Chester Clarion Clearfield Clinton Columbia Crawford Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Elk Erie Fayette Forest Franklin Fulton Greene Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson Juniata Lackawanna Lancaster Lawrence Lebanon Lehigh Luzerne Lycoming Mckean Mercer Mifflin Monroe Montgomery Montour Northampton Northumberland Perry Philadelphia Pike Potter Schuylkill Snyder Somerset Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga Union Venango Warren Washington Wayne Westmoreland Wyoming York The results are viewable using Adobe Acrobat Reader software (Version 2.0 or higher - 3.0 or higher recommended), and allow easy printing for handing out at meetings. You can download free software by clicking the "Get Acrobat" icon below.
	Webpage and content developed by Tim Kelsey and Jay Harper, Associate Professor and Professor of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Penn State University @copyright 2001