State Representative Chip Brown, R-Hollinger’s Island, has announced that he has pre-filed legislation that will provide historic and much-needed tax cuts and exemptions to commercial fishing businesses operating throughout Alabama’s Gulf Coast region.
“Alabama law currently provides the agricultural industry with tax exemptions and other benefits that are not currently extended to commercial fishing ventures, which operate, in essence, as the farmers of the Gulf of Mexico,” Brown said. “Simple fairness demands that commercial fishing businesses should enjoy the exact same tax benefits as the rest of the agriculture industry, and my bill simply corrects an inequity that has existed for far too long.”
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