No one showed up to cheer Sen. Carl Glimms proposal to return $437 to property taxpayers but he figured all the supporters were at work, partly to pay their taxes.Monday, more than 40 people from across the state spent roughly two hours telling the Senate Local Government committee that Senate Bill 90, to redirect dollars from lodging and rental car taxes to a property tax credit, is a reckless policy and would wreak havoc on Montanas economy, t…

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Tourism and travel reps argue property tax bill would ‘wreak havoc’ on Montana economy

Lawmakers who want to offer Montana residents substantial immediate property tax relief face an inescapable mathematical reality: Unless they want to force local governments to lay off cops and teachers, the money to lower residential property tax bills has to come from somewhere.That somewhere, for one of the first major tax relief proposals to get a hearing before a legislative committee this year, is the state’s current pair of bed taxes: a 4…

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A bill backed by Senate Republican leadership would divert lodging tax dollars that currently fund tourism promotion and small-town economic development to lower homeowner tax bills.

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Tourism advocates slam Montana bed-tax-to-property-tax-relief proposal

A packed parking lot at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. (NPS/Jacob W. Frank)No one showed up to cheer Sen. Carl Glimm’s proposal to return $437 to property taxpayers — but he figured all the supporters were at work, partly to pay their taxes. Monday, more than 40 people from across the state spent roughly two hours telling the Senate Local Government committee that Senate Bill 90, to redirect dollars from lodging and rental car taxes to a p…

Tourism and travel reps argue property tax bill would ‘wreak havoc’ on Montana economy

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