The Legislature’s Ag Land Assessment Task Force heard received a report Monday from the Department of Revenue on 2018 land assessments. That report shows that…
Tag: property tax
Get set for a tax vote in Lake County! The petition drive to refer a new 0.9-mill property tax levy for roads collected enough signatures…
My old home folks in Lake County are up to some democracy. My friend Steven Kant is helping circulate a petition to refer Lake County’s newly…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in special session today in Pierre to deal with the issue of nonmeandered waters, the lakes over private lands that…
So I’m hanging out at day #1 of public testimony to the Legislature’s interim committee on non-meandered waters here in Aberdeen. This is the issue flowing…
The Appropriations Committee documents include this table of total property values in South Dakota from 2011 through 2016 (payable 2012 through 2017). In 2011, in the…
Well, I screwed that story up. Yesterday I reported, based on a hasty reading of Senate Bill 35 that the conference committee had stripped the…
Speaking of tax incentives, Governor Dennis Daugaard has submitted his grassy-buffer-strips bill. Senate Bill 66 revisits the issue the Governor vetoed last year on constitutional grounds.…
When I recommend reforming South Dakota’s tax system by replacing our regressive sales and property taxes with a progressive income tax, Republicans go ape with…
…and Whose Fault Is That Unfairness? Rep. Al Novstrup and I agree that South Dakota’s current method of assessing agricultural land for property tax is a mess.…