When Taxes Must be Paid
Montana's Attorney General issued a legal opinion clarifying the exact deadline for 1905 tax payments after a county treasurer noticed the statutory due date fell on a holiday — a small but consequential bit of bureaucratic housekeeping.
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Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Page 2
1 min readHelena, Aug. 28.
Helena, Aug. 28.—Attorney General Albert J. Galen today rendered an opinion which will be of great interest to taxpayers and county treasurers throughout the state, relative to the time when taxes for 1905 become delinquent, and also as to which fiscal year taxes collected on December 1 should be credited. The opinion was rendered in response to a letter from County Treasurer G. F. Robbins, of Custer county, who was the first to notice that November 30, the last day permitted under the law for the collection of taxes, is a legal holiday.
The attorney general in his opinion quotes section 12 of the Political code, which stipulates that any secular act appointed by law or contract to be performed on a particular day, such act may be performed upon the next business day following with the same effect as though done upon the day prescribed.
Therefore, taxes will not become delinquent until 6 o'clock p. m. December 1, 1905, and consequently should be credited in the receipts of the fiscal year ending November 30, 1905.
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