HB 440 MT Food First Tax Incentive
HB 440: Montana Food First Tax Incentive
HB 440 Rep. Jane Weber from Great Falls is carrying this bill.
The bill passed out of the House Taxation Committee 18-3
The bill will go to the House Floor now for a 2nd reading vote — don’t delay and let your
Representative know you want them to vote yes on HB 440.
Bill Information
- The goal of this bill is to provide a tax incentive opportunity for retailers to stock Montana foods on their shelves, providing a subtraction from individual income and corporate income taxes for the income from Montana-Produced food. Details of this are on page 4 line 18 and page 6 line 20. This is completely voluntary, and retailers can choose to utilize this incentive or not.
QUESTIONS?
Please email Rachel Prevost
or call at 406-452-6406
Talking points
Most importantly, share your story and how this bill could impact you and your farm and your products/or the farmers and ranchers you may work with.
One of the biggest problems producers face is access to markets. The Montana Food First bill will help by incentivizing Montana retailers to put Montana foods on their shelves.
We see firsthand how much influence and control large corporations have in our food systems. Many of them are raking in record profits, while we are paying record high prices for groceries. Farmers and ranchers haven’t seen an increase in the prices they received for their products. The pandemic shined a light on our broken food system and showed us that we need to strengthen and build up resiliency in local and regional food systems.
The Montana Food first bill supports local farmers, ranchers, growers, retailers, grocers and entrepreneurs, and keeps more consumer food dollars in our local economies.
This bill supports regional and local food system resiliency.
This bill will help Montana consumers have better choices at the grocery store and to buy what their neighbors are producing.
This incentive is completely voluntary to retailers and lets them decide what is best for them and their community.
HB 440 Montana Food First Tax Incentive
Email, Call, or Comment Online
- Email members of the committee and ask them to support or not support the specific bill.
- Call (406) 444-4800 to reach the Information Desk to leave a message to the appointed committee and ask them to support or not support the specific bill.
- Comment online by setting up a public participation account here to submit a comment online or send a message letting the committee know your concerns with the bill and ask them to support or not support the specific bill.