Here’s A Quick Primer On Montana Property Taxes* (aka “Real Estate Taxes”) – Montana Residential Taxation – Montana Department of Revenue
All Montana houses are appraised at market value by the Montana Department of Revenue (DOR)
Let’s use, for example, a Bozeman home that has recently been appraised at $200,000:
To this amount, there is applied a “homestead exemption” with a rate of 34 percent. That rate is deducted from the appraised value – $200,000 less $68,000 – resulting in a taxable market value of $132,000.
A tax rate (3 percent) is applied, for a taxable value of $3,960. When the mill levy (which varies by city, county, and even school district but averages 538 mills) is applied to the taxable value, approximately half of the taxable value is the amount of property taxes due; in this example, approximately $2,000.
In this example, note that we started at an appraised value of $200,000 and ended with a tax due of $2,000, or 1 percent of market value. That is a general benchmark for property taxation, which means that anything above 1 percent of market value for an annual tax bill, perhaps, is too high.
ADDITIONAL MONTANA STATE RESOURCES:
- MONTANA INCOME TAXES
- MONTANA REAL ESTATE PROPERTY TRANSFER TAX
- MONTANA STATE TAXES
- REAL ESTATE TAXES IN MONTANA
- ESTABLISHING MONTANA RESIDENCY
- MONTANA RIVERS
- RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN MONTANA
*All information contained herein is derived from sources deemed reliable, however, information is not guaranteed by Taunya Fagan Bozeman real estate, agents, brokers, or ESTATE House.
