Tax Policy Center

conservation easement transactions

Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Tax-wise, conservation easements have been around for decades. They were designed as a tax benefit to encourage the preservation of natural resources, but they’ve also become a popular tax avoidance vehicle. Who benefits most from those tax breaks?
February 14, 2024Renu Zaretsky
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Conserving nature—not paving over it—is "pretty cool," so much so that our tax code has for decades offered an tax incentive to do it through “conservation easements.” But a certain kind of scam has taken that incentive to another level entirely.
September 2, 2020Renu Zaretsky