Nebraska Administrative Code — Title 316 (Revenue) + Title 350 (Property)
Neb. Admin. Code § 350-11-005.02 — The assessor shall annually determine the special valuation assessment
The information shall be based upon sales of similar classes or subclasses of agricultural land and horticultural land from agricultural and horticultural areas in which actual value is not subject to influences by other purposes and uses. Sales within the same county that, in the judgment of the assessor, do not have nonagricultural or nonhorticultural influences on the value of agricultural o r horticultural land, may be used for market comparison in determining the special valuation assessment . Care should be taken to ensure that the uninfluenced sales represent land that is comparable to the land to which the special valuation assessment is being applied. 005.02A Sales in neighboring counties shall be used in the market comparison approach if all agricultural and horticultural sales within the county have been determined to reflect selling prices that have been influenced by other than agricultural and horticultural purposes and uses. 005.02B Special valuation of agricultural and horticultural land shall be based on a market analysis of arms length sales that may include property that sold subject to certain probable and legal agricultural and horticultural purposes and uses. These include, but are not limited to: 005.02B(1) Additions to existing land holdings; 005.02B(2) Like-kind exchanges (1031 Exchanges); 005.02B(3) Location to existing towns or other locations of marketing influences such as grain elevators, grain processors, feedlots, livestock sale barns, livestock buying stations, packing plants, fertilizer dealers, fuel sales, feed supplement sales, and other suppliers of purchased inputs used in farming and ranching;
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