Franklin
County has received just under 80 thousand dollars from the state for
payments in lieu of taxes.
Franklin
County tax collector Rick Watson said the county received the 78
thousand dollar check from the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection.
Payments
in lieu of taxes are paid on property purchased by the state and
taken off the county tax rolls.
The
majority of the property now state owned is in the Tate's Hell forest
in the northern portion of Franklin County though there are some
sites along the water like Bald Point.
The
state owns about 188,000 acres or about 54 percent of the entire
county.
The
state owned property is used mainly for conservation and animal
habitat.
The
payment in lieu of taxes program only continues for 10 years after a
property is purchased, and then the payments stop.
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