South Dakota lawmakers advanced a county option tax plan aimed at cutting owner-occupied property taxes.
The House passed Senate Bill 96, 48 to 19.
The bill would let counties adopt a gross receipts tax of up to one-half percent.
Counties would use the money first as a credit against the county levy on owner-occupied property.
Republican Rep. John Hughes from Sioux Falls carried the bill on the House floor.
Rep. Will Mortenson, R-Fort Pierre, said the structure shifts money toward the counties with the most sales and the highest home values.
The bill heads to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk for his signature.
Rhoden called it the start of the largest property tax cut in South Dakota history.
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