Kalispell’s signature property tax relief bill may have not received the same level of attention as other famous tax reform measures in recent weeks, and the two chambers of the Montana Legislative Council have corrected and reconstructed until the last time of the session on Wednesday. But even if the House of Representatives 483 is the work of Wall Flower in this session, supporters say that it can be remembered as a ball.
According to Courtenay Sprunger, a supporter of the bill, R-Kalispell, this returned $ 50 million this fall due to the immediate and long-term tax reduction that was partially delivered to Montanans. However, for the past 20 years, Montana’s 95 SCHOOL EQUALIZATION MILLS, which is the mainstream of Montana’s K-12 public education funding model, has a lot of stabilization stabilization ballast.
Sprunger said, “Most relief looks like a big water balloon, where we are pushing money to find the right formula.” This policy does not focus on immediate crisis, but today, tomorrow and the future, for 10 years. We stay home and thrive. “
SPRUNGER said that the right side law, which caused signature real estate tax reduction measures, said that she produced a scale of sending excessive property taxes collected at the unified 95 school equality factory in cooperation with the educational funding expert team. The blood bag on this bill was passed in 2023 with the House of Representatives 587, which has been revised based on Montana’s taxation for balancing funds between Montana’s school districts.
Sprunger said that he had built a Right Back Act based on the foundation of House Bill 587.
“The main goal improved by the lessons learned from the dramatic shift of property values recently is that it will reduce local property tax bills to provide direct relief to taxpayers using 95 millimeters,” he said.
SPRUNGER said Spright Back ACT paid a major allowance by providing $ 25 million in school bus transportation, $ 7 million for the County Retirement Fund, and $ 18 million to offset the GTB (Guarated Seargy Base) obligations.
In addition, the main repayment rate for school traffic for 20 years is modernized, providing immediate tax reduction in 2026, while protecting the tax spike due to the re -evaluation cycle, and reducing the long delay related to the GTB.
“Finally, this bill provides a language that can cooperate with other property tax relief laws that cooperate with this committee and other committees.”
Lance Melton, director of the Montana School Boards Association, has criticized the state of repayment of the state’s transportation, which has been flat since 2005 with the repayment of county.
Melton said, “In the meantime, global taxes have increased significantly more than $ 92 million.
According to the right law, the state will pay a significant weight of school transportation, and County shares remain at $ 12 million and the school district has a $ 24 million stake.
Melton said, “This is a permanent tax reduction in bats to solve the delay in inflation.
The work of the previous session instructed the excess collection to offset the local donation of teacher retirement, but quickly attracted the opposition from the county government, including the FlatheAd County. The Supreme Court of Montana ruled the state’s favor in November 2023.
Melton said, “The court found that there is excessive dependence in the local variable factory, which is a patchwalk quilt throughout the state.
The initial thread of the patchwalk quilt appeared in 1993 when the Montana Legislature passed 95 millimeters to support the K-12 public school funds. Lawmakers began their initiatives to make the Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court ruling ruled that if it was not properly raised to the unification education program, it was forced to “excessive dependence” on other regional variables. The court found that the inequality of the tax rate did not provide each student with a high -quality public education system.
The legislature responded to the ruling by creating three new uniform payments to promote lifting. 22 millimeters for high school equalism; 40 millimeters for state equality. Since the legislature adopted a factory to be equally applied to all real estate taxpayers in the state, these three separate charges were known to be combined with 95 millimeters for school equality, which was continuously imposed and used to support Montana’s public school for more than 30 years.
Montana’s school district is currently setting up a rate of taxing local real estate owners to fill the basic budget. This is a complex calculation determined by the taxable value of the earth, the number of taxpayers in IT and the budget requirements of the school district. Depending on the system of Earth, hundreds of school factories in Montana are spreading, creating a tax structure that says that educational professionals are almost impossible to understand. This formula prefers small -scale districts in rich areas such as resort destinations and natural resource hubs, but in areas with low income, the burden of local funding is increased.
Melton said, “We have a factory from 1.78 to another in another community. The value of wheat is $ 0.34 in Heart Butte and $ 2,750 in ALZADA.” It was enforced by the legislative department in 1993 to prevent and preserve excessive dependence. “
First of all, one of the major property tax proposals for the Governor’s desk, one reason is that the 483 Household Act 483 pays less attention than the response to the “Homested” property tax rate, and is not qualified while reducing the tax burden on the first residence of Montanance, long -term lease and small commercial real estate. I had a rent. Senator with a decisive 46-4 vote.
But it works with other measures to reduce the burden on the local tax system, Sprunger said.
As the name suggests, the bill sends excessive property tax collected from the UNIFOL Equalization Mills “Right Back” built in House Bill 587, which passed in 2023 to create a school equality and property tax reduction (SEPTR) account in 2023.
Sprunger told the Senate Taxation Committee members on April 14, “This is a property tax solution that you can take home to your people and take it home to you.
Shelley Turner of the Montana School Business Civil Service Association said that HB 483 will increase the rate of elementary and high school GTB ratios throughout the 2026 fiscal year and 262%in 2027 to provide funds for the county retirement system.
“This aid is essential for county that allows counties with low property taxes to meet local taxpayers without excessive burden on local taxpayers.” This represents a comprehensive approach to revising the school funding method by supporting a county retirement system and providing significant savings to Montana taxators. By stabilizing school payments, providing property tax relief, and guaranteeing the efficient use of the bill, this bill will maintain the financial health of our county and protect the interests of taxpayers. “
Melton, Montana and Montana, who supported the bill on behalf of the Montana School Boards Association Officials) competed Sprunger for “mention of the taxpayer.”
“And I want to go further to suggest that it interferes with the over collection from the beginning,” he said.
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