Farmers now don’t have to worry about being charged the carbon tax when they get fuel at the cardlock.
Sharmin Rodgerson, from the Gilbert Plains Coop, says they received news this morning that the Carbon Tax exception now included the cardlock.
“There was a lot of farmers upset. A lot of them get their fuel out of there and really trying to figure out what their options were. But that obviously is solved now, hopefully.”
Anyone who filled out their Federal Fuel Charge Exemption Certificate forms don’t have to worry about filling out another one.
“But we do need the people that only pick up at the cardlock are going to have to fill out the form, or they won‘t get the exemption.”
This exemption includes dyed diesel and regular gasoline.
Fuel can be used to do a number of things. “It includes the tillage of soil, livestock grazing or exhibiting, maintaining horses for racing, raising of poultry, fur farming, dairy farming, fruit growing, and keeping of the bees. But, of course it doesn’t include an office or an employment under a person engaged in the business of farming.”
Rodgerson says forms need to be in the computer system by April 1st to avoid paying the Carbon Tax.
The form can be found here.
