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Nebraska Farm Bureau continues to push for property tax relief

Nebraska Farm Bureau continues to push for property tax relief in the Nebraska legislature.

Farm Bureau president Steve Nelson says he remains optimistic.

“We’re very close to having the number of votes needed to pass some really important property tax relief in LB 1106—and it also contains a significant increase in state aid to public schools across the state,” Nelson says.

The first few days of this summer’s legislative session have been marked by bitter infighting among some members of the Unicameral.  Nelson hopes cooler heads will prevail.

“Obviously, tensions are high—and the fact that there is a small number of days here as the legislature has come back into session, it’s not helpful,” he says. “But I hope, at least, as we move forward here, that Senators will be leaders for the state of Nebraska and will look at what can be done to really help the state.

Nelson says property tax relief would help get the Nebraska economy “back on its feet” after the economic blow by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There’s opportunities here with property tax relief and a number of other things to really do some great things for the state under some really difficult conditions.”