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Livestock Tax Deferral Program |
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| Owners of breeding livestock in designated areas |
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The Livestock Tax Deferral provision allows farmers who sell part of their breeding herd due to drought or flooding in prescribed drought or flood regions to defer a portion of sale proceeds to the following year. When prescribed regions are identified, the list is announced publicly and posted on the Canada Revenue website.
To defer income, the breeding herd must have been reduced by at least 15%.
- Where the breeding herd has been reduced by at least 15%, but less than 30%, 30% of income from net sales can be deferred.
- Where the breeding herd has been reduced by 30% or more, 90% of income from net sales can be deferred.
- In a year in which a region has been prescribed, income from livestock sales are deferred to the next tax year when the income may be at least partially offset by the cost of reacquiring breeding animals, thus reducing the potential tax burden. In the case of consecutive years of drought or excess moisture and flood conditions, producers may defer sales income to the first year in which the region is no longer prescribed.
2018 Initial List of Prescribed Regions:
- Beaver County
- City of Calgary
- Camrose County
- Cardston County
- Cypress County
- Forty Mile County No. 8
- Kneehill County
- Lacombe County
- Lethbridge County
- Mountain View County
- Newell County
- Pincher Creek No. 9
- Ponoka County
- Red Deer County
- Rocky View County
- Municipal District of Taber
- Vulcan County
- Warner County No. 5
- Wetaskiwin County No. 10
- Wheatland County
- Willow Creek No. 26
For more information, contact a local Canada Revenue Agency office. |
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Ag-Info Centre.
Last Reviewed/Revised on September 27, 2018.
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