Missoula: Budgetary challenges punctuate state’s overreliance on residential property taxes

In recent years, the Legislature has shifted that tax burden to residential properties and away from commercial and industrial properties.

“Our residents are feeling that property taxes are increasing faster than they historically have, and that’s true. There hasn’t been much re-balancing between the (tax) classes,” Bickell said. “That shift is continuing. Taxpayers are paying a much larger burden of the tax base than they have in past years.”

Martin Kidston