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Voters deserve a say as counties consider shifting property tax burden to sales taxes

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Voters deserve a say as counties consider shifting property tax burden to sales taxes
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A Minnehaha County property tax bill delivered in early 2026. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)South Dakota’s new optional half-percent county sales tax is being sold as property-tax relief.
It is relief only in the sense of moving money from one pocket to another. The cost of county government does not fall. The law changes who pays it.
Meade, Pennington, Custer and Codington are among the counties that have enacted the tax. Codington County opponents are gathering signatures t

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