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Local Option Tax Bills Continue To Die In Committee

By Tim Pierce – UM Legislative News Service • Mar 28, 2019

HELENA -- The third bill in the Montana Legislature that would provide a local option sales tax was tabled with a 12-6 vote in the House Taxation Committee Thursday.

House Bill 740 would have allowed local governments to adopt a voter-approved sales tax of up to 4 percent. No more than 40 percent of the tax revenue would go to property tax relief.

Committee Includes Social Security Income Tax Cut In State Budget

By • Mar 21, 2019
Montana Capitol, Helena, MT.
William Marcus / Montana Public Radio

A tax cut on social security income passed by both the state House and Senate is moving forward. The House Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to include the tax cut in the state budget. 

The priority bill for Senate Republican leadership would create significant changes in the amount of social security income that’s exempted when filing Montana tax returns.

Resort Tax Increase Clears Initial State Senate Vote

By • Mar 19, 2019
Preliminary 2018 Nonresident Traveler Expenditures
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research

A proposal to add an additional 1 percent to the resort tax that nine Montana towns are allowed to levy got initial approval Monday.

The 1 percent optional resort tax increase passed its first vote in the Senate 33-16. The tax would fund infrastructure projects in tourism-impacted towns.

'Capitol Talk': Wilderness Schools; Infrastructure; Colstrip; And Columbus Day

By & Rob Saldin & Holly Michels • Mar 15, 2019
'Capitol Talk': MTPR's Weekly Legislative Analysis Program

Tonight on Capitol Talk: State lawmakers are buckling-down on a number of issues, including increased oversight of non-profit schools for troubled teens; what infrastructure projects to support or reject; what to cut or support in the health department; and whether ratepayers should bear the burden of keeping Colstrip's coal plant going.

Learn more now on Capitol Talk.

State Budget Advances Without Funding For Vacant Health Department Jobs

By • Mar 11, 2019
Montana Capitol, Helena, MT.
William Marcus / Montana Public Radio

A roughly $10 billion state budget passed out of the Montana House Appropriations Committee Monday afternoon. Lawmakers are pushing forward with a smaller state spending plan than the one offered by Gov. Steve Bullock back in November.

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