Last updated on 2018-05-02
A tax revolt could be underway here in Brown County. Miffed at Brown County’s illegal property tax assessment scheme, hundreds of farmers and other owners of agricultural land are paying their property taxes “under protest.” Brown County treasurer Sheila Enderson says that protest could put a kink in local governments’ revenue hose:
The property taxes paid under protest are being transferred into a trust account, Enderson said.
“My obligation is when people pay under protest, their money is put in a trust account because we can’t give just it to the schools. Normally, the school would get a big check from us from taxes collected, but we can’t put it into the taxation stream until 30 days after they filed this. I have to wait to see if they file a lawsuit,” Enderson said.
As of Friday afternoon, the county has received $560,000 in property taxes paid in protest, she said [Shannon Marvel, “Farmers Upset with Ag Values Are Paying Property Taxes Under Protest,” Aberdeen American News, 2018.04.30].
Aberdeen Central School District business manager Tom Janish says the school’s next big quarterly receipts should come in May. Teachers, you’d better make those markers and paper supplies stretch for this final month, just in case some tax payments move from protest to litigation.
Marco Rubio on the NOem/Rubio tax scam, Money quote
““There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” Rubio said. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.” https://www.nationalreview.com/news/marco-rubio-republican-tax-reform-bill-trickle-down-defense/
Aberdeen needs to revolt as we all do. The Russian/republican tax scams are not in anyone’s best interests but the bankers and other elites.
It’s not the Government’s money Jerry. There is no scam.
Just more tax, spend, and borrow by South Dakota republicans.
Go farmers! SD needs a fair and equitable tax system, like a progressive income tax.