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Betsy Bates

Timber Prices “Light and Variable” During First Quarter, Tax Reform Troubling For Timber Owners

April 17, 2015/0 Comments/in news-2015 /by Betsy Bates

The economic recovery of the forestry sector continues at a painfully slow pace while Congress mulls tax reform legislation that could eliminate timber tax provisions that will have a negative impact on small private forestland owners, one of the nation’s largest forestry consulting firms reports.
Marshall Thomas, president of F&W Forestry Services, Inc., one of the nation’s leading forestry management and consulting firms, reports in his firm’s quarterly newsletter that timber price increases during the first quarter were “light and variable.”

“Wet weather (in this case snow)—normally a harbinger of higher timber prices—actually caused a significant drop in February housing starts, perhaps contributing to the lack of excitement in local stumpage markets,” Thomas writes in the spring 2015 edition of the F&W Forestry Report. “Fortunately as we enter the warm season, it looks like El Nino has a good chance of staying with us and should have its predictable positive impact on stumpage prices.”

“As our painfully slow recovery continues, a real threat to forest landowners is coming from our politicians [in Washington] in the form of tax reform. The proposals for forestry include the elimination of capital gains, annual expense deduction, amortization of reforestation expenses, and tax credits for reforestation expenses,” Thomas said.

“If made, these changes could reduce long term returns for small private forestland owners by as much as 25 percent … That’s more than enough to offset the recovery for the next five years or so,” he added.

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Betsy Bates

Forestry Coalition Urges Congressional Tax Leaders To Retain Timber Tax Provisions

April 17, 2015/0 Comments/in news-2015 /by Betsy Bates

More than 150 forestry organizations, timber industry groups, and private timberland owners have come together to file joint letters with the U.S. House and Senate tax-writing committees urging Congress to retain long existing timber tax provisions of the revenue code, including capital gains on timber sales.

The House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee will play influential roles in writing any new or revised federal tax laws applying to timber sales, forest management expenses, reforestation costs, and related expenses involved in the business of growing trees commercially.

The forestry-generated letters to the Congressional tax leaders urged their respective committees to retain the existing tax law treatment of the timber-growing industry, noting it works for trees, forestland owners, including the 22 million family forest owners across the country, wood products and paper manufacturing, fish and wildlife, and outdoor recreation.

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Betsy Bates

Housing Starts Drop, New Home Sales Soar, While Permits Edge Up In First Quarter

April 17, 2015/0 Comments/in news-2015 /by Betsy Bates

Under the onslaught of harsh winter weather, new home construction in the U.S. fell below the annualized million new starts marker in February for the first time since September 2014. The decline is being attributed to the devastating winter weather that has plagued much of the country and slowed home building for a second consecutive winter.

While housing starts were floundering, sales of newly built, single-family homes in February actually rose 7.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 539,000 units. This is the highest sales pace since February 2008 according to the National Association of Home Builders.

But there was more positive news for housing in the form of new home building permits—an indicator of future housing construction activity. The Department of Commerce reports that new housing permits were issued for 1,060,000 units in January of this year and for 1,092,000 units in February in spite of the harsh winter weather.

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