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County defers decision after health-trust asks to raise property tax exemption from 43% to 69%

5134079 · July 3, 2025
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Summary

A representative of a health services trust asked the Bannock County Board of Equalization to increase a partial property tax exemption for a downtown health-services building from 43% to 69%. Commissioners agreed to revisit the request Monday and tabled the item after brief discussion.

Clark Bidden, chief financial officer for the health trust identified in the appeal, asked the Bannock County Board of Commissioners, sitting as the Board of Equalization, to increase a partial property tax exemption for 1001 North Seventh Avenue from 43% to 69% and to apply the same calculation to an additional building.

Bidden said the building at 1001 North Seventh Avenue is a 50,640-square-foot facility (parcel number 152800) that houses multiple health-related tenants, and he presented an allocation worksheet showing current leases and tenant status. “I’m requesting that we increase that from 43% to 69%,” Bidden said during the appeal presentation.

The request followed a May 15 administrative approval that previously granted a 43% exemption for that parcel. Bidden told…

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