PROPERTY TAX
THE WEST WING Weekly Memo 3-8-2013
Each Weekly Memo to the City Council and the agenda packet is also provided on theCity Councilweb page. WEEKLY UPDATE: Legislative Update Red River State Recreational Area Senator Stumpf and Repre...
Posted on 3/8/13 at 2:55 PM
STAFF BLOG THE N.D. CAPITOL AND BEYOND Financial impact of Measure 2 debated
BISMARCK About $812 million in property taxes for 2012 would be eliminated if North Dakota voters approve Measure 2 in June, a state research analyst said Monday. Kathy Strombeck of the state Tax Co...
Posted on 4/2/12 at 2:28 PM
STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legislative notebook: GOP tax cut bill draws heated debate
A Republican bill cutting statewide business property taxes received mixed, and at times heated, reaction Tuesday in its first committee hearing. A House Taxes Committee vote is expected later this w...
Posted on 3/13/12 at 9:16 PM
Dwight Messner, Grand Forks, letter: Measure 2 ensures state serves the people 
North Dakota residents are not the servants of government, but rather the opposite.
And the best reason to abolish property taxes is then we actually will own our property rather than renting it from the government.
By Dwight Messner , February 09, 2012
Phil Krinkie, St. Paul, column: Minnesota lawmakers, stop playing Santa Claus
It’s time for the Legislature to stop playing Santa Claus to property tax owners by paying out hundreds of millions every year in gifts to cities and counties for property tax relief.
By Phil Krinkie , December 15, 2011
Dennis Stillings, Valley City, N.D., column: Omdahl distorts, misrepresents Measure 2
It has been said that abolishing the property tax is like blowing up a tractor with a hand grenade if a couple of things go wrong with it. One should just fix the tractor. The property tax has been “fixed” some 135 times since 1981. It’s time to use the hand grenade.
By Dennis Stillings , November 26, 2011
CAPITOL CHATTER: DFL blames GOP on taxes .. Car buyers avoid taxes ... Rural hospital fears .. more
Democrats make it clear they blame Republicans for rising property taxes in Minnesota, and will do that even louder in next year’s campaigns.
By Don Davis , November 19, 2011
Leon Mallberg, Dickinson, N.D., letter: Property tax itself is the greatest inequity
The players are the property taxpayers on the one hand and the following gang on the other: the state of North Dakota and the counties, cities, townships, park boards and so on.
By Leon Mallberg , September 06, 2011
EGF City Council to discuss levy increase
The East Grand Forks City Council likely will pass a preliminary levy increase of 5 percent at its meeting today.
By Ryan Bakken , September 05, 2011
LLOYD OMDAHL: Tax repeal would deepen inequities between counties
Changing the tax structure from one of local options to one controlled by the state will limit local flexibility and create new inequities among counties in the provision of services.
By Lloyd Omdahl , August 29, 2011
Dennis Stillings, Valley City, N.D., letter: Omdahl wants to keep feeding tax dragon
In his May 16 column, Herald columnist Lloyd Omdahl once again frets that finding replacement revenue to make up for the repeal of the property tax (Measure 2) “will be virtually impossible” (“Property tax easy to kill, hard to replace,” Page A4).
By Dennis Stillings , June 05, 2011
Dennis Stillings, Valley City, N.D., letter: Omdahl wants his era’s works to live forever
For Herald columnist Lloyd Omdahl, the achievements of his time in government are monuments to which all future generations must bow. The upstarts and whippersnappers who make up today’s Legislature apparently are incapable of unraveling the evil mess that the property tax represents.
By Dennis Stillings , May 17, 2011
Robert Hale, Minot, letter: A ‘win-win’ way to eliminate property taxes
There’s no need to increase any taxes to make up for the revenue that no longer will be available from property taxes.
By Robert Hale , May 17, 2011
LLOYD OMDAHL: Property tax easy to kill, hard to replace
The North Dakota treasury may be brimming with windfall revenue, but financing the total repeal of all property taxes will be virtually impossible.
By Lloyd Omdahl , May 16, 2011
Keith Colville, Valley City, N.D., letter: Abolish property taxes? Yes, we can
I agree property taxes are not simple.
That is just one more good reason why they should be abolished.
By Keith Colville , May 15, 2011
Lawmakers to study N.D. property tax measure
The proposal would get rid of property taxes and give the Legislature the job of providing replacement revenue for local governments.
By Associated Press , May 10, 2011
LLOYD OMDAHL: Replacing lost property taxes no easy task
As we discovered when we eliminated the personal property tax on farm equipment, store inventories and household goods, getting money back to the school districts, counties, cities and townships proved to be almost impossible — and personal property constituted only 15 percent of the total property tax at the time.
By Lloyd Omdahl , May 09, 2011
LLOYD OMDAHL: Count on voters to reject property-tax repeal
Even though a majority of us dislike the property tax, this proposal will be defeated because, in the final analysis, voters will recognize the pitfalls involved in such a radical change.
By Lloyd Omdahl , April 11, 2011
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