SLEDGER: FAKE-FARMER LAW NEEDS TEETH
A recently enacted state law aimed at culling ‘fake farmer‘ landowners “will eventually give local tax officials the power to force out fakers,” but doesn’t go far enough, the Star-Ledger says in an editorial published Friday.
Championed by state Senator and Red Bank resident Jen Beck who won her seat in 2007 after a battling an opponent she tagged as a fake farmer the reform bill signed by Governor Chris Christie this month goes too easy on wealthy individuals, developers and owners of office parks who took advantage of the old law to duck some $95 million a year in local taxes, the Sledger says.
