The Gallatin County Commission approved a resolution on Tuesday to collect the remaining school equalization taxes that it and other counties had tried to buck by collecting fewer than the
The Montana Supreme Court Wednesday ruled against Montana county governments in a dispute over the Montana Department of Revenue’s authority to order the full collection of the 95-mill state-level school equalization levy, a formerly obscure piece of tax bills that became a flashpoint this fall as state and local officials contended with frustration over rising property taxes.