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Montana Taxpayers Association to meet in Helena

Tribune Capitol Bureau

HELENA – The Montana Taxpayers Association will have its annual meeting at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 2, at the Best Western Premier Helena Great Northern Hotel, 835 Great Northern Blvd., to discuss issues related to Montana’s economy and tax policies.

The meeting will begin with a luncheon with keynote speaker Scott Greenberg, analyst from the Tax Foundation, a national tax policy organization. He will discuss a study, “Location Matters,” which compares the effects of state tax policy on several types of businesses and federal tax developments.

Other presentations will cover:

• What is going on in the Revenue and Transportation Committee by Sen. Fred Thomas, R-Stevensville, and Rep. Tom Jacobson, D-Great Falls.

• Intangible Personal Property Valuation and Tax Policy by Karen Powell, assistant professor of law at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law.

• Montana’s Current Revenue Picture, by Amy Carlson and Stephanie Morrison, Legislative Finance Division.

• Current and future structure of the telecommunications industry by a panel consisting of Tara Thue, with AT&T, John Bemis with CenturyLink and Bonnie Lorang, general manager of the former MT Independent Telecommunications Systems.

• Current legal issues in taxation by Mike Green, attorney with Crowley Fleck.

• Property reappraisal: Past and future by Director Mike Kadas, Department of Revenue, and

• Coal Industry Overview by Terry Johnson, director of the Natural Resource and Energy Research Program of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Montana.

Attendees can talk with other taxpayers and the presenters. Continuing education credit is available for those attending.

Registration information is available by contacting The Montana Taxpayers Association at mttaxpayersassoc@montax.org.