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Tax commissioner outlines HB1006: IT maintenance, salary equity and property‑tax credits drive budget requests
Summary
Tax Commissioner Brian Croches told the Senate Appropriations Government Ops Division the department needs funding for GENTAX maintenance, NDIT fee increases, salary equity, servers and continued support for the primary residence (homestead) credit and disabled veteran exemptions amid higher participation and digital filing growth.
Tax Commissioner Brian Croches presented the Department of Revenue and Taxation’s budget request (House Bill 1006) to the Senate Appropriations Government Operations Division, emphasizing IT maintenance, staffing and the continuing costs of recently expanded property‑tax relief programs.
“Our mission at the office is to administer the tax laws of North Dakota fairly and efficiently,” Croches told the committee, describing the agency’s move to digital filing and recent program work. The department said about 93–94% of individual income tax returns and nearly all active sales‑tax accounts file electronically; the presentation said roughly 49,000 sales‑tax accounts are in the system with about 1,000 paper filers remaining.
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