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Finance director presents tax-year 2025 mill-levy proposal; staff urges review of Department of Revenue taxable values

5693686 · August 28, 2025
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Director Danielson told the commission that certified taxable values returned by the Department of Revenue were lower than expected and presented proposed mill rates including a higher general levy and a recommendation to restate a voted levy in dollars.

Director Danielson presented the administration’s proposed mill-levy package for fiscal 2026 and urged the commission to press the Montana Department of Revenue for clarification after the city received a lower-than-expected certified change in newly taxable value.

Danielson said the state’s inflation factor for taxable-value adjustments was 2.11% this year, while the city’s certified…

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