Whitefish’s preliminary budget calls for increase in property taxes

Whitefish’s proposed budget is calling for an increase in property taxes after the previous year’s budget relied on an increase in resort tax collections to provide a property tax rebate.

The preliminary budget for fiscal year 2024 includes an increase in collections to cover the roughly $380,000 decrease in additional property tax relief from the resort tax.

If approved, the budget would result in a home with a market value of about $526,000 seeing an estimated increase of about $80 or 10% on the city’s portion of the tax bill. Property tax owners last year saw a roughly $98 decrease in their bills.