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Forest Finance: Aunt Fanny Asks About Timber Taxes

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Brooks Mendell | no comments in Forest Finance & Economics, Timberlands

My Aunt Fanny, retired after 30 plus years with a regional community bank, inherited 220 acres of forestland in middle Georgia. Since then, she’s peppered me with questions and seduced me with Mentos in order to get a better understanding more…

Forest Finance: What is Timber “Depletion”?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Brooks Mendell | comment (1) in Forest Finance & Economics

Money does grow on trees. Unfortunately, it grows in small denominations. So we care deeply about managing costs and minimizing taxes. Which brings us to a category of questions I get each tax season: timber depletion. What is it? Depletion, more…