Montana No State Sales Tax Amendment (2022)
| Montana No State Sales Tax Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Montana No State Sales Tax Amendment was not on the ballot in Montana as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The amendment would have prohibited the Montana State Legislature from enacting a state sales tax. As of August 2020, the Montana Constitution limits the state sales tax rate to 4%. The state did not have a state sales tax.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Montana, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Moreover, signature collection must be distributed such that petitions include signatures equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in each of two-fifths (40) of the state's 100 legislative districts in the last gubernatorial election. Petitioners have a maximum of one year to collect signatures and get them verified by county elections officials.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 60,359 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures to county clerks was June 17, 2020. The deadline to submit signatures to the secretary of state was July 15, 2022.
County election officials check each signature to make sure the name corresponds to the name of a registered voter. Then they use a 5 percent random sampling method to check the authenticity of the signatures. Signature petitions are then sent to the secretary of state, which certifies the measure for the ballot if enough valid signatures were submitted.
Details about this initiative
- This is initiative was filed by Mike Cooney, a Democratic candidate for Montana Governor. In announcing the initiative, Cooney said, "We’re taking it straight to the people of Montana to decide once and for all: no statewide sales tax. Not today. Not two years from now. Not ever."[1]
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