Give me a (tax) break
I’m sure it is just a coincidence that Montana homeowners’ property tax bills come out just a couple of weeks before the election. Coincidence or not, it’s a good reminder for taxpayers to take a closer look at the person who wants their vote.
We need no reminders that last year’s property tax bills were a real eye opener, and that this year’s will present more of the same awakening. That’s in spite of the Governor’s largess in offering a $675 property tax rebate for taxes paid in 2022 and another offered this year for taxes paid in 2023, which, also coincidentally, is offered to us just a couple of months before the election. There are few coincidences in politics.
The problem with property taxes is that they relate to wealth rather than ability to pay. Wealth is what you own that has a value, but in order to enjoy that wealth fully it often has to be turned into money, that is, sold.
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