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Legislative Fiscal Division demos interactive budget and property-tax tools, highlighting agricultural land data
Summary
Legislative Fiscal Division staff showed senators interactive, public-facing tools that link the governor's budget system and Department of Revenue property-tax data, with dashboards for taxable value, effective tax rates and county-level agricultural-land measures.
Nick Van Brown, a Legislative Fiscal Division (LFD) staffer, and LFD analysts demonstrated interactive budget and property-tax data tools to the Montana Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation during a committee meeting (date not specified).
The tools, available from the LFD publications and libraries pages and linked from the legislative website, combine the governor's budget entry system with Department of Revenue property-tax data to produce live dashboards that update through the session, staff said. "This information is exactly the same as that you would get from the subcommittees, and it will update as we move through session," Nick Van Brown said.
The presentation walked committee members through several dashboards focused on property taxes: statewide taxes paid by taxing unit, taxes paid by property class…
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