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Do Non-Farmers Pay Self-Employment Taxes on CRP Rental Payments?

Paul Goeringer

Oct 14, 2014
3 min

Do Non-Farmers Pay Self-Employment Taxes on CRP Rental Payments?

This post should not be construed as legal advice Maryland currently has over 65,000 acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a federal land conservation program managed by Farm Service Agency. Landowners enroll environmentally sensitive land and remove the land from agricultural production in exchange for a yearly rental payment. The issue has been how to treat that yearly rental payment from CRP on tax returns as either self-employment tax or not. Prior

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