Responding to the Critique
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Produces demonstrable positive effects
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Payment for ecological value vs Personal and
Discretionary expenditure
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1995-2005
Pre-capital gains
exemption
2006-2008
3 years/no taxable
capital gains
Number of gifts
475
217
hectares
44,425
73,031
FMV
139 mil
288 mil
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