Petition underway to end property taxes in North Dakota
Steve Hallstrom
Publisher, McKenzie County Farmer
North Dakota property owners may get the opportunity to eliminate property taxes, if a new initiative gets to the ballot in 2024.
Bismarck doctor, and one-time state representative, Rick Becker is leading a 25-person committee that has gotten approval from Secretary of State Michael Howe to collect signatures from North Dakota residents that would place the measure on the ballot in either the primary, or general, elections next year where it would need a simple majority to pass.
It would be an amendment to the state’s constitution, which currently prevents the state government from levying property taxes. The amended law would go a step further, preventing any North Dakota political subdivision from doing the same.