{"id":1268,"date":"2015-12-03T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2015-12-05T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T14:00:59","slug":"charitable-tax-incentives-critical-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/charitable-tax-incentives-critical-for-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charitable Tax Incentives Critical for Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1269 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg\" alt=\"landtrusticon\" width=\"619\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg 619w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-250x50.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a>Since 2006, an enhanced charitable income tax deduction has allowed family farmers, ranchers,\u00a0and forest land owners to receive a significant tax benefit for donating a conservation easement\u00a0on their land. Unfortunately, it expired at the end of 2014. Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) introduced the Conservation Easement Incentive Act (H.R. 641) to make the incentive permanent. \u00a0\u00a0America\u2019s 1,700 local land trusts and a diverse coalition of more than 60 national conservation, agriculture, and sporting organizations, including our IWLA organization, are working together to make the incentive permanent.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/lta.informz.net\/informzdataservice\/onlineversion\/ind\/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9NTE4NzgwNCZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9MTAwMjAzMDExNg==\" target=\"_blank\">Land Trust Alliance&#8217;s Advocate Alert<\/a>, and also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iz4.me\/fv5o2zIdeVU1\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> from Independent Sectors urging House and Senate leadership to permanently restore and extend charitable giving incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1269 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg\" alt=\"landtrusticon\" width=\"619\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon.jpg 619w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-250x50.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/landtrusticon-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a>Since 2006, an enhanced charitable income tax deduction has allowed family farmers, ranchers,\u00a0and forest land owners to receive a significant tax benefit for donating a conservation  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/charitable-tax-incentives-critical-for-conservation\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-member-advisories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}