Tax-relief proposal slammed by tourism advocates
The sun sets at Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park on Sunday, July 28. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Lawmakers who want to offer Montana residents substantial immediate property tax relief face an inescapable mathematical reality: Unless they want to force local governments to lay off cops and teachers, the money to lower residential property tax bills has to come from somewhere.
That somewhere, for one of the first major tax relief proposals to get a hearing before a legislative committee this year, is the state’s current pair of bed taxes: a 4% lodging facility use tax and a 4% lodging sales tax.
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