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…
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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…
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…