Investment Warning: Farming May Endanger Your Financial Health
Hoy F. Carman
from ARE Update Vol. 19, No. 2, Nov/Dec, 2015
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Abstract
During the last 15 years, some two-thirds of individual taxpayers with farm income have reported total net farm losses averaging over $11.1 billion annually. In addition, the U.S. Government participates in funding these losses by foregoing taxes on other sources of income from which farm losses are deducted. Persistent losses indicate that farming may have changed from an investment to a consumption good for many individual taxpayers.
Keywords
Farm Income, Taxes, losses, Profits, Depreciation
Citation
Hoy F. Carman. 2015. "Investment Warning: Farming May Endanger Your Financial Health." ARE Update 19(2): 5-8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1453327773/16980/