COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Tax practitioners with an interest in farm income taxes will have an opportunity to attend a farm tax workshop on December 15.
The Agricultural Tax Issues workshop is sponsored by Ohio State University Extension and Ohio State's Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics.
Phil Harris, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin, will teach the workshop and educate participants on current agricultural tax issues. Topics to be covered include tax provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill, sale of carbon credits, conservation easements and the farmer provisions, prepaid expenses, fertilizer containment structures, soil and water conservation payments, tax issues for farmland owners who rent their land, depreciation and IRC 179 expensing, as well as other related topics.
Harris will be available for questions during two scheduled conference calls and OSU faculty will also be available to answer questions.
The workshop will be offered at nine locations throughout Ohio. Registration for any location is $120, received by Dec. 8. Registration includes a 300-page book, Agricultural Tax Issues and Form Preparation, as well as lunch. The workshop will run from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The workshop will be held at the following locations:
• OSU Extension office, Ashtabula County, 39 Wall St., Jefferson. Contact Warren Lee at (614) 292-6308 or lee.97@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension Southeast Region office, 16714 Wolf Run Rd., Caldwell. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
• Ross County Service Center, 475 Western Ave., Chillicothe. Contact Marianne Guthrie at (740) 702-3200 or guthrie.76@osu.edu.
• Holiday Inn on the Lane, 328 W. Lane Ave., Columbus. Contact Warren Lee at (614) 292-6308 or lee.97@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension office, Darke County, 603 Wagner Ave., Greenville. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension office, Putnam County, 124 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension office, Wyandot County, 109 S. Sandusky, Rm. 16, Upper Sandusky. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension office, Champaign County, 1512 South U.S. Highway 68, Ste. B100, Urbana. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
• OSU Extension office at Wooster, 1680 Madison Ave. Wooster. Contact Vickie Snyder at (740) 732-2381 or snyder.252@osu.edu.
The Agricultural Tax Issues workshop has been accepted for continuing education credits by the Accountancy Board of Ohio, IRS Director of Practice and the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education.
Workshop information, a downloadable registration form, as well as on-line registration are available at the following Web site: http://aede.osu.edu/programs/TaxSchool/agissues.aspx, or by contacting Warren Lee, Ohio Income Tax Schools, at (614) 292-6308 or lee.97@osu.edu.