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Floating the river, hiking on state land, or just having lunch at one of the 330+ fishing access sites in Montana will now come with a cost.

Love it or hate it, recreational cannabis is raking in serious cash for Montana's tax coffers. Here's where the nearly $50 million in 2022 tax revenue gets spent.

Montana’s November ballot will include more than the hotly contested races for U.S. House and Senate, as voters will weigh in on proposals to increase tobacco taxes and create new water standards for hard-rock mines. Secretary of State Corey Stapleton’s office announced Wednesday that Initiatives 185 and 186 both received enough voter signatures to qualify for the ballot...

A Senate committee has tabled a local option tax authority bill as of Tuesday, probably killing it for the current legislative session.  Senate Bill 331, or the Local Option Infrastructure Investment and Property Tax Relief Act, was defeated in the Taxation Committee yesterday by a 7-5 vote...

The Billings City Council is scheduled to make a decision in November whether it will support seeking legislative approval for a 3-percent local option tax.  The group Authorize Community Transformation– or ACT Montana– wants Montana communities to have the authority to ask voters for the tax, which in Yellowstone County would raise about $47 million annually...

Montana non-profits were under pressure to send in paperwork to the state Department of Revenue before March 1 to keep their tax exempt status.

The IRS recently released a package of Tax Migration Data for 2013, which shows when people stop paying taxes in one place and started paying them in another.

The Montana Department of Revenue is busy filing tax returns!

According to the Montana Film Commission, a black-and-white film shot in Montana is receiving a lot of praise this awards season and may help pave the way for more films to be produced in the state.

Montana Legislative Services Fiscal Analyst Stephanie Morrison has been studying the major sources of revenue for the state of Montana during the past fiscal year and says one source stood out significantly.