Property Tax Task Force Pushes for More Relief

Task force advances 19 proposals to reduce South Dakota property taxes

A legislative task force aiming to reduce property taxes for South Dakota homeowners advanced 19 proposals at its final meeting on Wednesday in Pierre, setting up a potentially long list of bills for legislators to consider this winter. The proposals include cutting state spending and applying the savings to property tax relief, replacing some property tax revenue with sales tax increases, using one-time tax credits for temporary taxpayer relief…

Property Tax Committee Recommends 18 Proposals for Property Tax Relief

Doing far more substantive work in the Capitol yesterday than the medical mariwhiners was the Legislature’s Comprehensive Property Tax Task Force, which recommended for consideration eighteen proposals (out of 27 placed on the committee table) for addressing property taxes. I have to say addressing, because not all of the potential legislation would cut property taxes or raise other taxes to replace them. Representative Greg Jamison’s (R-12/Siou…

Property tax task force recommends 5% cut to SD government spending

A proposal to cut state government funds as a means of reducing property taxes for South Dakota homeowners received the OK from an ad hoc task force.

Property tax task force pushes for more relief

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- Thirty years after a property-tax revolt threatened to upend funding for South Dakota's county governments and public school districts, and the Janklow administration responded with a 30% reduction through a combination of cuts and tax hikes, the rumbling that has been building again in recent years now has the attention of state lawmakers and the governor. The 16 voting and two non-voting members of the Legislature's Comp…

Task force advances 18 proposals to reduce South Dakota property taxes

A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)A legislative task force aiming to reduce property taxes for South Dakota homeowners advanced 18 proposals at its final meeting on Wednesday in Pierre, setting up a potentially long list of bills for legislators to consider this winter. The proposals include cutting state spending and applying the savings to property tax relief, replacing so…

Task force advances 19 proposals to reduce SD property taxes

PIERRE — A legislative task force aiming to reduce property taxes for South Dakota homeowners advanced 19 proposals at its final meeting on Wednesday in Pierre, setting up a potentially long list of bills for legislators to consider this winter.