New Mexico Statutes Chapter 7. Taxation § 7-36-24. Special method of valuation; mineral property and property used in connection with mineral property when the primary production from the mineral property is potash

A. The provisions of this section apply to valuation of all mineral property and property used in connection with mineral property when the primary production from the mineral property is potash.

B. The value for property taxation purposes of improvements, equipment, materials, supplies and other personal property held or used in connection with all classes of potash mineral property is an amount equal to the market value of all mineral production from the potash mineral property for the prior year, less any royalties paid or due the United States, the state or any Indian tribe, Indian pueblo or Indian who is a ward of the United States. “Improvements” as used in this section includes surface and subsurface structures, but does not include pits, shafts, drifts and other similar artificial changes in the physical condition of the surface or subsurface of the earth produced solely by the removal or rearrangement of earth or minerals for the purpose of exposing or removing ore from a mine.

C. The value for property taxation purposes of the surface value for agricultural or other purposes held in connection with class one productive or nonproductive potash mineral property, when the surface interest is held in the same ownership as the mineral interests, shall be determined under the methods of valuation required by the Property Tax Code.

D. The value for property taxation purposes of class one productive potash mineral property is an amount equal to fifty percent of the market value of all mineral production from the potash mineral property for the prior year.

E. The value for property taxation purposes of class two and class three potash mineral property is an amount equal to fifty percent of the amount derived by deducting from the market value of all mineral production from the potash mineral property for the prior year any royalties paid or due the United States, the state or any Indian tribe, Indian pueblo or Indian who is a ward of the United States.

F. The value for property taxation purposes of class one nonproductive potash mineral property shall be determined under Subsection E of Section 7-36-23 NMSA 1978.

G. If a taxpayer severs potash in one or more governmental units and processes the severed potash in another governmental unit, the value of all interests in minerals shall be allocated to the governmental unit or units in which the potash is severed, and the value of improvements, equipment, materials, supplies and personal property shall be allocated among the governmental units in which the property is located on the basis of the original cost of the property.

H. The department shall adopt regulations specifying procedures to be followed under, and the details of, the method for valuation of potash mineral property specified in this section. The department shall also adopt regulations for the allocation of values of potash mineral property among the governmental units.