Woodland owners in a forest or current-use tax program

Where is the land?

See what leaving your forest tax program costs: withdrawal or rollback tax, deadlines, and how a buyer keeps the land enrolled. Free to read.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Every fact cites its source
5 FT APN 018-224-07 ADU · 640 SQ FT

ePlan fills in

  • Parcel and acreage
  • Assessed value
  • Forest cover
  • Aerial photo

How it works

Exit-cost and deadline report, from one answer

  1. Pick your program and say what's happening to the land.One answer starts the project. ePlan names it and looks up the place.
  2. ePlan pulls the parcel's assessed value and runs the program's exit math.3 more questions, each with a "not sure yet" way out.
  3. Read the cost and deadline report free, then download it for your closing.The draft marks what to check (amber), what to pick (blue) and what to fill in (violet).

What you get

Exit-cost and deadline report and 3 more documents

The first draft is free to read. Each document after it is drafted from the same confirmed facts.

The first draft

Exit-cost and deadline report

  1. Land, program and enrollment date
  2. What triggers withdrawal or rollback
  3. Estimated withdrawal or rollback tax
  4. Fees and interest
  5. Deadlines that keep the land enrolled
  6. Options: transfer, partial withdrawal or stay

Modeled on: Wis. Stat. 77.88 and Pennsylvania Clean and Green rollback rules

Next · 2

Landowner forest plan

  1. Stands and goals
  2. Practices by year
  3. Map
Next · 3

Timber sale contract

  1. Timber sold and price
  2. BMP terms
  3. Closeout
Next · 4

Withdrawal application

  1. Owner and parcel
  2. Acres withdrawn
  3. Reason and date

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

10 years

of tax at last year's net rate on assessed value is Wisconsin's Managed Forest Law withdrawal tax, or fewer years if enrolled less
Source: Wis. Stat. 77.88(5)(ac)

Questions

Forest Tax Program Exit Cost: what people ask

What does leaving Wisconsin's Managed Forest Law cost?

The withdrawal tax is the prior year's net property tax rate times the land's assessed value times 10, or times the number of years enrolled if fewer. A separate withdrawal fee also applies.

Source: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov

Does selling the land end the enrollment?

Not if the buyer acts. In Wisconsin, land that still meets the rules stays enrolled if the new owner files the state's form within 30 days of the transfer, agreeing to follow the existing management plan.

Source: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov

What is the rollback in Pennsylvania's Clean and Green?

A breach of the program brings rollback taxes for up to 7 years plus 6% simple interest. Enrollment needs at least 10 acres in agricultural use, agricultural reserve or forest reserve.

Source: pa.gov

The rules this door follows