How do you deal with it?
You can pay them under protest. :?
We have a 10 acre piece in the middle of some grazing ground that
we got after we bought the rest of the ranch. This was a piece some
people in Washington owned because an ancestor owed some money
at the grocery store and they gave them 10 acres of ground. Anyway,
we got that 10 acres in our name several years ago. When Mt.
did this tax restructuring :? they valued that 10 acres at $30,000.
I did appeal and they reduced it to an assessment of $300.
There were a lot of instances like that. We still haven't got the tax
statement from the treasurer's office, because now she's way
behind because of all the appeals. She visited with me the other day
and she said CRP land is valued at cropland rates, hay ground is
valued at higher than cropland. Grazing land is valued at less.
I think Mt. has gone the way of valueing land at what it might sell
for instead of what it will produce.
Too many liberals in the Montana State government. :x
P.S.
Gripes me to no end that Mt. does not have a sales tax. Every state
around us does. It is the fairest tax of all. Montana wants this state
as a playground for the rich, yet gets nothing from the rich except
what they buy in the stores when they pass through. Oh yeah, they pay a
'bed tax' when they stay in a motel, hotel, etc. In Montana the
tax burden falls on the property owner and those who pay a state
income tax. Montana is about 50 years behind the times...
Like Doc Harris says, "don't get me started!"