Article: Sales tax idea resurrected

Article: Candidate for Montana Governor Fingers Opponent on ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... championed the same 1993 sales tax. Davison, a Billings ... did support a 4 percent sales tax proposal in 1993 and even ... he no longer supports a sales tax and pressed Brown to sign ... portions of southeast Montana. As for legislative tampering ...

Article: Statewide Sales Tax Seen as Montana Schools' ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 24, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... tax measures -- such as a statewide sales tax -- are needed. The state's share ... statewide school mill levy or a statewide sales tax would serve the purpose, Miller said ... difference, officials said. Miller said a sales tax might be more palatable to voters than ...

Article: Sales tax idea resurrected
The Billings Gazette;  January 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Marc Racicot pushed the sales tax back into Montana's political spotlight ... boast that "there's no sales tax in good ol' Montana." There had been virtually no calls for a sales tax in Montana from June 1993, when Racicot ...

Article: Panel to look at sales tax on tourist items
Missoulian;  June 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... would be subject to a sales tax on tourist items. Montana finishes dead last ... based on the price. Montana has no sales tax or rental car tax ... consumption tax. Montana doesn't have a general statewide sales tax, but voters in 1994 ...

Article: Counties launch sales-tax push
Missoulian;  November 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Hibbard said. Montana voters rejected ... s proposed sales tax, which provided ... president of the Montana Education Association ... has supported a sales tax in the past ... of the draft sales-tax plan advocated by the Montana Association of ...

Article: Many support, one opposes 4 percent general sales ...
Missoulian;  March 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... implement a 4 percent sales tax on nearly all consumer goods sold in Montana. Numerous supporters ... Committee that the sales tax would bring Montana's tax system ... Even though the sales tax would eventually ... million a year, Montana's general fund ...

Article: Racicot backs sales tax, again
Missoulian;  October 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... point plan to shore up Montana's sagging agricultural ... including a suggestion for a sales tax to reduce government ... new jobs and helps the Montana economy while keeping ... have strongly rejected sales tax proposals in the past ... any effort to revive Montana's economy, ...