South Dakota Farm Bureau Prepares Members for Tax Advocacy

With several important provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire at the end of 2025, South Dakota Farm Bureau hosted four meetings in July to help their members better advocate for making permanent the doubled estate tax exemption, business deductions and reduced pass-through tax rates, among other farmer-friendly provisions.

Speakers from South Dakota Farm Bureau, American Farm Bureau Federation and the South Dakota Department of Revenue shared their tax and advocacy expertise at the gatherings. In addition, South Dakota Farm Bureau provided the 61 attendees with take-home materials including a booklet covering the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, detailed property tax information and more, as well as an action alert template to use to contact legislators.

Strategic Action Fund

South Dakota Farm Bureau’s tax meetings were funded through a grant from the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Strategic Action Fund. Through the fund, state Farm Bureaus with fewer than 25,000 members were eligible to apply for funding of up to $5,000 for projects that address AFBF’s board-adopted 2024 priority issues or address an organizational need that supports advocacy around priority issues.

Several state Farm Bureaus – Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas – each contributed at least $1,000 to the Strategic Action Fund for the 2024 round of projects.