New property tax bill- Holy CRAP!! (Billings, Kalispell: apartment, rent, lawyers)

[Baby B]

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/mo...es-tax-revenue

[Zenstyle]

Ahhhh….”god’s country!” heh heh

[Baby B]

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/mo...ew-report-says

[KNPV PSD]

Originally Posted by Baby B

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/mo...ew-report-says

“So if you have $1 million in the top income bracket, you’re getting a tax cut on everyone of those $1 million, whereas if you have $40,000, you’re getting a tax cut on only $40,000,” Bender said.

I am no financial genius, but aren't both of those examples getting a cut on 100% of taxable income?

[2sleepy]

When I first moved to Nevada the same thing happened, large tax increases with no justification or explanation. People got so angry that the legislature changed the way tax is collected and only raised property tax 3% a year. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens in Montana

[Baby B]

This link was in that article too. https://montanabudget.org/report/the-great-tax-shift. I guess having no sales tax in the state causes increases elsewhere. Also there is no property tax assessment limit.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Baby B

This link was in that article too. https://montanabudget.org/report/the-great-tax-shift. I guess having no sales tax in the state causes increases elsewhere. Also there is no property tax assessment limit.

That site is run by, uh, "community organizers" (radical leftists) and I note a great deal of "lying with statistics".

There are fewer wealthy people than middle class people. Naturally this can be skewed to say "wealthy people don't pay as much taxes"... if you only look at total numbers, not as percentage of income (then suddenly the taxes hard-shift to the wealthy).

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There's a lot of this "If we call it [Issues] For Montana, people will believe us" going on. Last week I got a little newspaper in the mail that calls itself the "Montana Independent". It is neither. It came from Washington D.C. and is published by the outfit formerly known as ShareBlue, a Democrat fundraising organization.

[Threerun]

Originally Posted by Reziac

That site is run by, uh, "community organizers" (radical leftists) and I note a great deal of "lying with statistics".

There are fewer wealthy people than middle class people. Naturally this can be skewed to say "wealthy people don't pay as much taxes"... if you only look at total numbers, not as percentage of income (then suddenly the taxes hard-shift to the wealthy).

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There's a lot of this "If we call it [Issues] For Montana, people will believe us" going on. Last week I got a little newspaper in the mail that calls itself the "Montana Independent". It is neither. It came from Washington D.C. and is published by the outfit formerly known as ShareBlue, a Democrat fundraising organization.

https://montana.servicenowservices.c...icle=KB0014487

Percentages do matter. For 2024- All ordinary income above $41,000 for Married Filing Joint (us) is 5.9%. Long term capital gains over $41,000 is 4.1%.

The articles source data is accurate regardless of their opinion.

[Baby B]

https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-ne...ors-properties

[Shuffler]

Originally Posted by Baby B

https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-ne...ors-properties

Sounds about right.

Here in the Flathead everyone's up in arms about the bills they just got from the County, which reflects the adjusted mill rate back up to 95 from 77 after the State Supreme Court intervened.

So much for the 'property tax relief' refund (pittance) that Gianforte was bragging about.

We got developers still bringing forward huge projects, throwing around the "we're going to help the housing inventory problem" carrot. It's B.S.

- Mick Ruis has purchased the old CFAC superfund site (over 2000 acres) and is on record as saying he wants to build 'affordable' 1800sq ft houses for $550K. EPA hasn't even completed cleanup, which could be over $1B if they have to remove material and truck it out of State. Something doesn't add up here.

Ruis has multiple projects going around here, is based out of CA, and there's been speculation on where he's getting all this money. Ties to Mexican cartels & money laundering has been heard through the rumor mill. I guess when I think about it, that makes sense given we have no borders right now and cartels operate freely all over America.

Going to be an 'interesting' public hearing whenever that happens!

- An out of State group wants to build a >1000ac 'luxury resort' in Lakeside

- Kalispell just approved a >300 unit development northwest of town despite very vocal opposition with legitimate concerns regarding impacts to schools, traffic, water supply, etc.

- The County planning board is revisiting another huge development in Somers next month ... this likely means they've already got plans to approve it despite nearly complete opposition.

Kalispell has a couple of severely contaminated wells serving parts of town ... their 'solution' right now is to 'blend' that water with cleaner water to reduce the PFAS contamination until a real solution is found. Isn't that comforting?

Meanwhile developers have been enjoying 50% off impact fees since 2020, while the rest of us get to deal with inflation at every turn. Amazed at how many people remain clueless to who the elected 'leaders' actually work for.

This place is the running joke that keeps on giving, and all this is really just to say - get used to higher property taxes as elected officials sell MT down the river.