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House urges federal partners to honor PILT, directs commission to evaluate tax-revenue formulas
Summary
The House passed HCR 19 urging federal partners to deliver payments-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILT) that are 'just as good as' local property taxes and approved HB 357 directing a federalism commission to study formulas for calculating foregone tax revenue; both measures passed unanimously on the floor.
Representative Ivory introduced HCR 19, a concurrent resolution asking federal officials and the state's federal delegation to honor long-standing promises of payments-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILT) that compensate communities for federal land ownership that removes property-tax revenue. Ivory said the federal promise from 1976 should yield payments that are 'just as good as taxes' and argued that current PILT payments shortchange children and communities,…
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