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Homestead bill will provide tax relief

by Curtis Cochran
| February 26, 2025 12:00 AM

During my campaign to be your state representative last year, I promised to seek solutions to our affordable housing crisis and skyrocking property taxes. These problems have hit rural western Montana especially hard as we see industries disappear, and good jobs along with them.


That’s why I’ll be supporting the Homestead, Comstead and Agstead Exemption bill to provide immediate and permanent property tax relief to homeowners in my district. We see thousands of out-of-state tourists stream through places like St. Regis every summer, and tourism is an important industry for our part of the state. But these visitors also need to pay their fair share for the services they use. HB 231 will make sure vacation property owners contribute to our tax base, with redirected funds going straight to tax decreases for Montana homeowners, renters, and small business owners.  

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