Revenue Form K 4 2023

Good morning and welcome to your farm and home show my name is joanna coles and this morning we're visiting with kevin lyons he's the monroe county extension agent for agriculture and natural resources good morning kevin good morning joanna now kevin we get calls at the extension office all the time about farm tax exemption and those type of things but we have something new this year to tell people we do there's a new law that just kind of went into effect i think july 1st of 2023 it was passed about a year ago but it's just like most laws it takes a little lag time for it to take effect but it will take full effect uh january 1st 2023 and it's where farmers and ag producers need to have an ag exemption number in order to always get that sales tax exemption on their purchases that qualify for that all right so in years past they would fill out a form and take that to their retailer but now they have to actually send in a form to the department of revenue right yes they have to uh kind of the initiative has kind of been passed over to the farmer and taken some of the load off for the businesses and the vendors it brings on a little bit more of accountability keeps things streamlined there's been a little bit of issue maybe in the past where there's some confusion on what was exempt and what wasn't exempt and maybe some things got counted it shouldn't have been so they're trying to straighten that up just a little bit is the is the main goal of this uh but it also puts the onus on the farmer to take care of that so they...