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Small decrease in forestry income
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2014-02-19T10:00:00.000Z
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Forest owners' income, 2012

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Small decrease in forestry income

In 2012, average earnings for forest owners with a profit from forestry were NOK 35 000. Their average gross income was NOK 560 000.

Numbers of forest owners and average entrepreneurial income from forestry. For personal forest owners with positive entrepreneurial income from forestry1Published 19 February 2014
20122011 - 2012
Number of ownersNOKChange in entrepreneurial income, per cent
1The statistics are based on data from tax statistics for personal taxpayers.
Total22 17435 000-5.4
 
Productive forest area
25-99 decares2 29115 000-11.8
100-249 decares4 70721 0000.0
250-499 decares4 89025 0000.0
500-999 decares4 81431 000-6.1
1 000-1 999 decares3 19544 000-8.3
2 000-4 999 decares1 75575 000-6.3
5 000-19 999 decares473181 000-10.0
20 000 decares or more49413 000-4.8

Source: Statistics Norway

In 2012, the number of personal forest owners with positive forestry income was 22 200. Of these, 7 per cent had an entrepreneurial income from forestry exceeding NOK 100 000, while 84 per cent had a profit of less than NOK 50 000.

Forestry income totalled NOK 863 million

In total, 125 000 Norwegian forest properties are owned by individual owners. Less than one in five of these had profit from forestry in 2012, and their accumulated entrepreneurial income from forestry was NOK 780 million. In addition, spouses of forest owners had NOK 83 million in income from forestry in the same year. In 2011, the corresponding income was NOK 849 million and NOK 98 million respectively.

Average gross income increased

The average gross income of forest owners with entrepreneurial income from forestry was NOK 560 000; an increase of NOK 34 000 compared with 2011. Income from forestry accounted for 6 per cent of the gross income, while other entrepreneurial income accounted for 32 per cent. Income from wages and salaries accounted for 41 per cent, and the remainder was made up of pensions and other income.

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Tax is imposed on the average entrepreneurial income from forestry in the preceding five years.