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Tennessee developers reaping benefits of tax savings meant for farmers
"A joint investigation by the News Sentinel and its sister E.W. Scripps newspaper in Memphis, The Commercial Appeal, found that developers, industry, golf courses and many other savvy property owners across Tennessee are reaping dramatic tax savings — often paying pennies on the dollar — because a 1976 law to prevent farmers from being taxed off their land is full of loopholes and timidly enforced by many of the state's 95 assessors."