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January 16, 2013

To All Concerned Middle Peninsula / Northern Neck Land Preservationists,

We are writing to you with a 2013 Legislative Alert, on both the state and federal levels, that could affect the future of the State Land Presentation Tax Credit Program and the Federal Tax Deduction associated with the gifting of Conservation Easements.

HELPFUL Answers from the Land Trust Alliance

 
Q.  Was the enhanced conservation easement tax incentive extended?

Most furniture produced in eighteenth-century Virginia was heavily influenced by English craft traditions, but other cultures also impacted furniture design in discrete sections of the colony. One of them was the lower Rappahannock River basin. There, a distinctive body of cabinet wares made from the 1750s to the 1770s exhibits strong evidence of Irish influence.