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Taxes Get Shifted Again to the Little Guys No Vote

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DJ S Dakota Official: Can''t Challenge Beef Plant Tax Breaks



Agriculture Online

12:34 PM, November 2, 2006



ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP)--The Brown County state's attorney says a decision to

give tax breaks to a beef processing plant that'll be built just south of

Aberdeen cannot be put to a public vote.



Plant developers say the tax help is crucial for the project.



State's Attorney Mark McNeary says the action of the county commission cannot

be second-guessed by voters because it was an administrative procedure.



Administrative actions are not subject to public votes, but legislative

actions are.



A lawyer for opponents of the beef plant says he thinks it's a legislative

decision to provide a break on property taxes, and it can be put on the local

ballot if about 12-hundred signatures can be obtained.



A petition campaign is planned.



The Brown County Commission on Tuesday approved a measure that will provide a

tax break of $8.6 million for the new beef processing plant.



The tax break will be provided by creating a special tax increment financing

district that allows the increased value of the plant to be refunded in

property taxes as improvements are made.



Northern Beef Packers wants to build a plant that could process 1,500 cattle

a day at capacity.





(END) Dow Jones Newswires





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