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The Montana Association of Counties is going to the state Supreme Court, in the latest legal action aimed at settling a battle between the state and counties over property tax rules.
The Montana Association of Counties is going to the state Supreme Court, in the latest legal action aimed at settling a battle between the state and counties over property tax rules.
A coalition of education advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday against all 56 Montana counties, asking the Montana Supreme Court to issue an emergency order curtailing a tax revolt that has many county commissions refusing to collect the full amount of the state’s “95 mill” school equalization property tax.
“Every time that there’s been an intervention on behalf of our member counties, we have won in all of those litigations, and we hope to win in this one…
The Montana Quality Education Coalition wants the Montana Supreme Court to force counties to collect the full state school funding equalization property tax.