Do residential tax bills track with overall property tax collections across Montana? No.

This story is excerpted from the MT Lowdown, a weekly newsletter digest containing original reporting and analysis published every Friday.One of the many calculations I did while working on an in-depth analysis of how Montana property taxes have shifted this year (a story we published last week) was a look at per capita tax collections county by county. The results didn’t fit in the main story, but we thought they were worth breaking out as a separate item here.The chart below compares two 2023 figures for each of Montana’s 56 counties: Up the vertical axis, each county’s average residential p