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…
Tag: property tax
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…
So here’s the deal, says the Brown County Commission to ag-landowners in the fifteen southern, most fertile townships of our fair county. We overtaxed your…
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…
Fired Brown County equalization director Michael Hauke may have kicked a hornet’s nest bigger than Brown County. His announcement in January that Brown County was…
The Legislature voted Thursday to raise taxes to fund K-12 education. But our wily legislators are shifting the blame for any higher taxes to local…
Rep. Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) failed Monday to get the House to force every school district to allow homeschoolers to participate in high school extracurriculars…
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…
Michael Hauke, Jr., didn’t update his LinkedIn page when he moved from Brule County to Brown to serve as our director of equalization eleven months…