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crooked-v • today at 7:19 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The effect on taxes depends on the specific rules. But, with the easiest answer of basing it on market rate of land sales, industry in rural areas only increases taxes if that industry's paying significantly above existing market rate for some reason.

And if they are doing that, the taxes should go up, since there's some previously unrecognized value to the land that's driving industry to need to build there specifically and not somewhere else they can buy at preexisting market rate.

Of course, the same also applies in the other direction: if an active mine shuts down and sells for pennies, taxes for the surrounding land should go down based on that.


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RandomLensman • today at 7:33 AM

If it isn't considering hypothetical land uses than it isn't necessarily always pushing for more efficient use, no?

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