Group Fails To Gather Enough Petition Signatures To Put New SD Tax Law On Ballot

SB 245 Petition Drive Fails, Relieving Some Runoff Pressure on Rhoden

South Dakota’s body politic has endorsed Governor Larry Rhoden’s statewide property-tax/sales-tax swap with its silence. South Dakotans for Fair Taxes, a coalition of Dakota Rural Action, Bread for the World, and the state AFL-CIO, yesterday declared the failure their petition drive to refer 2026 Senate Bill 245 to a public vote: Opponents of a new law that uses a higher state sales tax rate to fund property tax reductions for homeowners said Fr…

Group Fails To Gather Enough Petition Signatures To Put New SD Tax Law On Ballot

Opponents of a new law that uses a higher state sales tax rate to fund property tax reductions for homeowners said Friday they did not collect enough petition signatures to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Group fails to gather enough petition signatures to put new South Dakota tax law on the ballot

A voter fills out a ballot at a Sioux Falls polling place during the South Dakota primary election on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)Opponents of a new law that uses a higher state sales tax rate to fund property tax reductions for homeowners said Friday they did not collect enough petition signatures to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. South Dakotans for Fair Taxes needed 17,508 signatures from registered S…