Montana 2025 Legislative Session

[Montana_Wanderer]

If that was true all tags would be limited entry already. I'm not against limited entry when needed, but it isn't the only way to manage wildlife.

 

[Shed God]

True u can manage wildlife anyway with any excuse u want. But in my opionon the way fwp manages wildlife in montana is a crime. The greatest crime is the mule deer.

 

[bigsky2]

https://bills.legmt.gov/#/lc/bill/2/LC1271

Language is out on the mule deer rut hunting bill.

 

[Carnage2011]

https://bills.legmt.gov/#/lc/bill/2/LC1271

Language is out on the mule deer rut hunting bill.

That’s a doozy.

 

[Rie Bread]

Seems as though the commission isn’t in support.
But item 10 page 3 line 24 seems to open the door to potentially managing some units to the new season dates?

 

[Straight Arrow]

Legislating season setting and more broadly, wildlife management, sadly reflects typical legislator arrogance.

 

[TheJason]

If any of you want to run a successful campaign, all you have to do is focus on pressing social issues. You know, like banning TikTok, and saving rut hunting for mule deer.

 

[Gerald Martin]

If any of you want to run a successful campaign, all you have to do is focus on pressing social issues. You know, like banning TikTok, and saving rut hunting for mule deer.

Joe Biden supports saving rut hunting for mule deer. Fact.

 

[mtmuley]

Joe Biden supports saving rut hunting for mule deer. Fact.

That's why he is gone. mtmuley

 

[Hem]

South Dakota limits number of Black Hills nonresident turkey tags - Outdoor News

But those turkeys and that beauty have drawn more hunters than South Dakota residents are willing to tolerate.

www.outdoornews.com

Residents having a say, and powers that be listening.
And where will all the displaced hunters opt to hunt? Yeah, no chance in hell I'm bothering with Eastern Montana this Spring. Come one, come all Montana motto.

 

[ismith]

https://bills.legmt.gov/#/lc/bill/2/LC1271

Language is out on the mule deer rut hunting bill.

Jedediah at desk

Visit the post for more.

jedediahhinkle.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-pallister-phd-761989103

In case anyone is wondering why this looks to be a bill written by a pair of differently abled matriarch fornicators...........................

 

[Nameless Range]

https://bills.legmt.gov/#/lc/bill/2/LC1271

Language is out on the mule deer rut hunting bill.

What a convoluted pile of edicts.

 

[TheTone]

Jedediah at desk

Visit the post for more.

jedediahhinkle.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-pallister-phd-761989103

In case anyone is wondering why this looks to be a bill written by a pair of differently abled matriarch fornicators...........................

His holster usage looks poor at best

 

[WanderWoman]

Montana’s agricultural tax rules slash bills for thousands of million-dollar homes

Properties classified as agricultural get a tax break worth hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.

montanafreepress.org

Interesting article on potential tax reform and impacts to traditional ag, recreational properties, etc.

Bill summaries provided at the bottom.

 

[JEL]

Sounds like a chit show of a session so far!

Standoff in the Montana State Senate brings work to a standstill
https://billingsgazette.com/news/st...cle_ddb4f2da-177c-5d03-8275-ab864ad9e8cf.html

 

[Big Fin]

Montana’s agricultural tax rules slash bills for thousands of million-dollar homes

Properties classified as agricultural get a tax break worth hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.

montanafreepress.org

Interesting article on potential tax reform and impacts to traditional ag, recreational properties, etc.

Bill summaries provided at the bottom.

Yup. If they wanted to lower property taxes for most Montanans, at least to some degree, I have a very simple solution.

Do not allow ag classification for any property owned by a non-resident or an entity with non-resident ownership. Do the Wilkes, Turner, Kroenke, (insert billionaire here), need the benefit of lower property taxes to keep their operation afloat?

If you are a resident, if ag profit is not 51% of your AGI, too bad for you. If you are a resident entity that is taxed as a pass-through entity, the test gets applied at the Shareholder/LLC Member level.

Why does the legislature refuse such easy solutions? I think we know the answer. Yet, for reasons we likely all know, UPOM is adamantly against any such effort to carve the non-resident billionaires out of the ag classification benefits. The governor and many in the legislature are against applying rules to residents who aren't farmers/ranchers, yet qualify under one of the huge loopholes provided in the MT system.

And these same folks protecting the status quo want to make the false claim that conservation easements are taking properties off the tax rolls. Complete BS. As a CPA I could never structure a conservation easement well enough to lower the property taxes to the degree I can get them lowered by using Montana's ag classification.

It's pretty damn easy to make that application and get approval - https://mtrevenue.gov/publications/agricultural-land-classification-application-form-ab-3/

Put me in charge of the property tax legislation and in two days I would increase property tax collections for counties by a huge margin, especially rural counties.

 

[mtmiller]

Put me in charge of the property tax legislation and in two days I would increase property tax collections for counties by a huge margin, especially rural counties.

Sorry, off topic, but I had someone else's voice in my head when I read this part.

It would be something "no one has ever seen before". It will be "yuge".

Sorry, carry on.