property taxes

CEO Brian Bird writes, "Some statements being made this campaign season about NorthWestern Energy and Montana property taxes are flat out wrong and misleading."

Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer writes, "The Montana Republican Party is now the party of higher taxes and more government spending."

Gov. Jared Polis signed a bipartisan package of property tax cuts into law on Wednesday, after supporters of a pair of ballot initiatives that proposed deeper cuts withdrew them earlier in the day.

Democrats in the Montana Legislature said a tax shift in the state has put too much pressure on residential property taxpayers, and they want to introduce a plan to address that.

State lawmakers and a state task force have been digging into Montana’s property tax system for months, and now, they’re moving closer to making some recommendations on possible changes.

Under the threat of a multimillion-dollar ballot measure campaign backed by Colorado businesses and anonymous conservative donors, state leaders on Monday announced they had agreed to pass the second cut in as many years to the nation’s third-lowest property tax rates.

Sheila Hogan writes, "While the rest of us throughout the state of Montana are paying record-high property taxes, Gianforte is paying less than his neighbors on his privately owned mansions in both Bozeman and Helena."

Utah homeowners are carrying a disproportionate share of the state’s property tax burden because assessors find it more difficult to correctly determine the value of commercial property, resulting in a “tax shift” from one sector to another.

Montana counties have mailed out supplemental tax bills after a court ruling ended an’ attempt to challenge how property taxes are calculated.

County treasurers are left with the thankless task of sending supplemental property tax bills to hundreds of thousands of property owners across Montana.