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Attn: Montana Ag Property Owners/Billings Gazette article

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This was in yesterday's Billings Gazette:

HELENA— The Montana Taxpayers Association is advising agricultural landowners to protest their second-half property tax payments due next week.

The group's president, Mary Whittinghill, said these property owners may be affected by a class-action lawsuit that the association and the Montana Farm Bureau Federation filed against the state Revenue Department.

She recommended that agricultural property owners fill out the correct paperwork and state that they are part of the class action lawsuit. They are automatically part of the class action unless they decide to opt out.

If they didn't pay their first-half property taxes under protest in November, Whittinghill urged them to pay the difference between the 2008 and 2009 taxes under protest.

For example, if their total agricultural property taxes were $4,000 in 2008 and they went up to $6,000 in 2009, and they paid $3,000 for their first-half property taxes in November 2009, Whittinghill said they should pay the full $3,000 due next week but protest $2,000 of it.

She said the lawsuit has nothing to do with the values set for the property by the 2009 reappraisal, but involves how the department phased in values of agricultural land.

Property taxes are due Monday, but since that is a holiday, they aren't due until Tuesda
 

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