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Bill would let resort communities ask voters to use extra 1% resort tax for workforce housing
Summary
Senate Bill 172 would allow eligible resort communities to seek voter approval for an additional 1% local resort tax (raising the optional cap to 4%) specifically to fund workforce housing; sponsor and proponents said it is locally popular and could generate roughly $760,000 in Whitefish while preserving existing property tax rebates.
Senator Dave Fern told the House Taxation Committee that Senate Bill 172 would let qualifying resort communities ask voters to approve an additional 1 percentage point of resort tax to fund workforce housing and related local needs. Fern framed the proposal as a narrow expansion of existing local-option resort tax authority and described the bill as a minor but practical change to current law.
Fern said resort taxes are local-option levies available to qualified municipalities (population under 5,500) and unincorporated resort tax districts (under 2,500), and eligibility requires that roughly 50% of a community’s economic activity…
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