Fargo Forum Quantifies The Coming Property Tax Hikes
It took a couple weeks, but statewide media is finally catching on to the warnings we have been sending out: property taxes are going up!
Cass County Auditor Michael Montplaisir predicted an 8.5 to 9 percent increase on residential property tax bills under the legislative changes, assuming everything else stays the same.
"At this point, we don't really know," he said. "We haven't gone through the budget process."
Kevin Glatt, the Burleigh County auditor, said he expects tax bills on residential property in the city of Bismarck to rise by about 7 percent under the legislative changes alone. Grand Forks County Auditor Debbie Nelson estimated the same figure for all property types in the city of Grand Forks.
As we warned you previou…
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