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Article: House pushes for tax relief: $104 million plan would halve the school property tax levy.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2006
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Byline: Betsy Z. Russell
Apr. 11--BOISE a The Idaho House tried a last-ditch attempt Monday to force the Senate to go along with a plan for $104 million in annual property tax relief.
"Whether the Senate will consider it, of course, is a real question," said Rep. George Sayler, D-Coeur d'Alene. "If it goes through, we have achieved a fairly significant tax-relief program, and if it doesn't, we have more work to do."
The House decided to amend an unrelated Senate bill, SB1404, to include removing half the property tax levy that funds basic school operations. Earlier, it had passed a bill, HB678, to do the same thing. But it is bottled up in a ...