With Montana property taxes climbing, drumbeat for a tourist tax grows

Later this month, Missoula homeowners and others around the state will receive what they may dread the most – the state’s latest appraised value of their property.

With market values on the rise, the mills levied by the city and county will increase in value, meaning the number of mills they can levy will decrease, as they risk hitting the state mandated mill cap. It’s a bazar function of the state’s current tax system and it’s one that a growing number of city and county leaders from across the state contend no longer works.

Martin Kidston