Campaigns

Enhanced Tax Incentive for Easement Donations

The enhanced federal tax deduction for conservation easement donations expired at the end of 2011! Now more than ever, we need your help persuading Congress to retroactively renew this powerful conservation tool and make it permanent.

• How You Can Help: Fact Sheets and Advice
• How the Incentive Works
• List of Co-sponsors in the 111th Congress
• Previous co-sponsors who haven't yet renewed their support
  
• Letters of Support
• Media Coverage and Success Stories

• FAQs

Estate Tax Incentives for Conservation

Estate taxes can lead to the break-up, sale and development of family-owned farm, ranch and forest lands, even when landowners would prefer to keep these lands intact. Congress will almost certainly enact estate tax reform this year, and we have a unique opportunity to improve incentives for conservation.

• Help Create New Conservation Incentives
• How Estate Tax Incentives Work

• Bills to Increase the Exclusion for Land Under Easement
• Bills to Defer Estate Taxes on Family Farm, Ranch and Forest Land
• Vote for Estate Tax Incentives in the AGO IdeaJam

Other Incentive Proposals

Beyond the Enhanced Tax Incentive and the Estate Tax, there are several other federal tax provisions that support land conservation in ways large and small.

• State and Local Tax Incentives for Conservation
• Community Forestry Conservation Bonds
• S Corporation Donation Incentive