The proposal to refer Medicaid expansion to a popular vote in 2020 is just one of six ballot measures the Legislature will consider this week.…
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Holy cow! If you want less government, turn to Republican Gary Cammack and Democrats Craig Kennedy and Steven McCleerey. They are sponsoring Senate Bill 4…
Not satisfied with the tax increment financing it got to incentivize a plant expansion that was already underway, Canadian cheese maker Agropur continues to try…
The Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force meets next Tuesday to discuss the absurd, Rube-Goldberg system of taxing South Dakota’s farm and ranch land based on…
LEAD South Dakota held Aberdeen’s first Legislative candidates forum of this general election season yesterday. Despite maintaining radio silence all summer and not sending an…
The online sales tax South Dakota can collect now from Amazon and other remote online vendors is already boosting local revenue projections. But don’t think…
The agriculture productivity assessment formula is finally catching up with the multi-year slump in crop prices and offering some farmers some relief from rising ag…
The awful graph of the week comes from the Department of Revenue’s otherwise rock’em-sock’em first-of-its-kind statewide Tax Increment Financing Report. Check out this poorly proportioned…
Funny: when Brown County landowners learn the county commission over-assessed their property for five years, Brown County says it’s not obliged to pay anything back…
South Dakota’s farmers pay what we call a “productivity tax” on their land. Since 2010, we’ve transitioned from taxing farmers on the sale price of…