1. Strongly support
2. Support
3. Oppose
4. Strongly oppose

Note that there are four additional policy questions at the very end.

Questions

1. Do you support or oppose the proposal that property owners should go to local officials with their property tax concerns and that the state has no, or only a very limited, role to play in addressing this issue?
2. Do you support or oppose HB 478 which would cap increases in local government property tax spending, including school district spending, at 3% per year with no provision for new construction?
3. Do you support or oppose HB 503 which would cap the increase in market value that can be taxed at 3% per year?
4. Do you support or oppose HB 455 which would cap the increase in market value that can be taxed at 5% per year?
5. Do you support or oppose the bill that would give voters a mechanism to reduce the property tax budget of a given unit of local government at the ballot box if 10% of voters petitioned for it and two-thirds of the voters approved it?
6. Do you support or oppose HB 423 which would expand the Homeowners Exemption by including the value of the land and by allowing the maximum value eligible for exemption, currently at $50,000, to increase at the rate of inflation (CPI) going forward?
7. Would you support or oppose HB 423 (HOE at $50,000) if it were indexed to the Housing Price Index for Idaho rather than to the CPI?
8. Do you support or oppose HB 421 which would expand the Homeowners Exemption by including the value of the land, by increasing the maximum value eligible for exemption to $75,000, and by allowing that value to increase at the rate of inflation (CPI) going forward?
9. Would you support or oppose HB 421 (HOE at $75,000) if it were indexed to the Housing Price Index for Idaho rather than to the CPI?
10. Do you support or oppose HB 456 which would expand the Homeowners Exemption by including the value of the land, by increasing the maximum value eligible for exemption to $100,000, and by allowing that value to increase at the rate of inflation (CPI) going forward?
11. Would you support or oppose HB 456 (HOE at $100,000) if it were indexed to the Housing Price Index for Idaho rather than to the CPI?
12. Do you support or oppose HB 422 which would expand the Circuit Breaker for low income elderly, widowed, and disabled homeowners?
13. Would you support or oppose HB 422 if it were amended to have an asset test so that older homeowners with significant assets would not qualify?
14. Would you support or oppose HB 422 if it were amended to index future expansions of the Circuit Breaker to the Housing Price Index for Idaho instead of the CPI?
15. Do you support or oppose HB 425 which would make “reverse mortgages” available to homeowners in Idaho over age 62 to pay for property taxes and other home expenses?
16. Do you support or oppose HB 439 which would allow individuals who qualify for the Circuit Breaker to defer their property taxes at 6% interest until the homeowner dies or the house is sold?
17. Do you support or oppose the combination of HB 678, which would eliminate half of the school property tax, and HB 679, which raises the sales tax by a half cent?
18. Do you support or oppose HB 504 which would give authority to school districts, similar to that which cities and counties now have, to levy impact fees on new growth?
19. Do you support or oppose HB 426 which would give school districts the authority to levy an impact fee of up to $2.50 per square foot of new homes?
20. Would you support or oppose efforts to reform the existing impact fee law so that it was easier for local governments to implement and could be used for a broader range of costs imposed by growth?
21. Do you support or oppose HB 501 which would continue the local option sales tax, require half the revenue be used for property tax relief, and expand the uses to which the other half of the revenue could be used to include infrastructure projects and affordable housing for local government employees?
22. Do you support or oppose HB 502 which would continue the local option sales tax, require half the revenue be used for property tax relief, expand the uses to which the other half of the revenue could be used to include all capital or infrastructure projects, and would require 40% of registered voters to have voted in an election authorizing a local option sales tax?
23. Do you support or oppose HB 485 which would give cities, counties, and landowners the option of creating a Public Infrastructure Improvement Districts?
24. Do you support or oppose closing the “Developer Discount” loophole so that land that was no longer devoted to agriculture would not qualify for the “speculative value” exemption for agricultural land?
25. Do you support or oppose HB 569 which would close the “Developer Discount” but would create the “Economic Development Initiative” that would exempt vacant lots in subdivisions from property taxes on two-thirds of their market value?
26. Do you support or oppose Senator Corder’s proposal that the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee review 10% of all tax breaks each year for the next 10 years to determine if they still serve a worthwhile public purpose?
27. What would you like to say to Legislators about property taxes?
28. What do you think about the quality of the briefing materials?
29. Do you think the briefing materials treated the issue fairly and objectively?
30. How much time did you spend reviewing the materials and answering the questions?
31. Do you have any recommendations for how we do the briefing and polling process in the future?
32. Other comments?
33. Would you support or oppose HB 678, which would eliminate half of property taxes that schools can collect, if the Legislature did NOT pass HB 679, which would provide schools with new funding through a half-cent increase in the sales tax that would offset most of the loss in property tax revenue?
34. Would you support or oppose HB 679, which would dedicate funds from a half-cent increase in the sales tax to schools, if the Legislature did NOT pass HB 678, which would eliminate half of the property taxes schools can collect?
35. Would you suppport or oppose HB 508, which would allow cities to add only 50% of the value of property in newly annexed areas to their property tax budget?
36. Would you support or oppose the combination of HB 678, which would eliminate half of the school property tax, and HB 679, which would raise the sales tax by a half cent, if the revenues from the half cent sales tax increase where dedicated exclusively to school support?

When you a ready to complete the questionnaire online, click on the links to the questionnaire either at the top or the bottom of the briefing materials.