Valley View Behind the Scenes: Acres of Tax Breaks (Episode 25)




The Morning Call Podcast show

Summary: This week, The Morning Call published the results of a ten-month investigation into a little-known tax law that has shifted billions of dollars from the tax bills of certain kind of landowners - farmers, millionaires, golf course owners - to the local tax bills of, well, everyone else. The law is called Act 319, also known as Clean and Green. We take you behind the scenes of the reporting on this project with its authors, Morning Call reporters Riley Yates (Northampton County courts) and Steve Esack (Harrisburg correspondent), as well as Terry Rang, The Morning Call's managing editor. To read the whole series, go to themorningcall.com/acres. Valley View is a production of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Music in this episode is by Huw Jones, Sam Brown, Lee Rosevere, Matthew O'Connor and Timothy Whitelaw.