When rookie Senator John Carley (R-29/Piedmont) filed his Senate Bill 58, I called his plan to eliminate property taxes without any suggestion of how to…
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Senator Jim Mehlhaff (R-24/Pierre) follows through on a proposal he made last fall and files Senate Bill 99, which would replace property taxes levied by…
As expected, Governor Larry Rhoden is punting property tax relief to the counties. Instead of building on the numerous proposals the Legislature’s interim task force…
Not satisfied to wait for the Frye-Muellers’ constitutional amendment to ban property taxes and bankrupt public schools and local governments, rookie Senator John Carley (R-29/Piedmont)…
Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen) has been acting strangely for a Republican, filing bills to raise taxes and not hurt the initiative process. He returns to…
As the good people of the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland head to the polls today to decide whether to dissolve their dwindling rural school district, I notice that…
Governor Larry Rhoden appears to be telling the Legislature to shelve the great goo-gob of property tax reforms that the Comprehensive Property Tax Force proposed…
Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith have kicked off their petition drive to abolish property taxes and replace maybe only 58% of the lost…
The sponsors of the initiative to replace property taxes with a retail transaction tax moved quickly this weekend to keep their petition drive alive, and…
LRC: Schools, Counties, Cities Will Lose $850 Million Taxing Retail Transactions Instead of Property
In their dog-and-pony slideshow presented to the Legislature’s property tax task force this summer, sponsors of a proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and…