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Montana’s big-sky views become bigger tax burdens

Housing values inflated by celebs make some landowners feel like roadkill.

Charles Abell grew up in Montana’s Flathead Valley in a rustic log cabin his parents built during their honeymoon at Whitefish Lake. When he married, Abell bought a small house on another part of the lake, leaving the old family cabin for his brother.

Abell paid $35,000 for the house in 1967, raised his two boys there, and until lately figured he’d probably die in the same tidy house with the metal awning over the porch, the collection of souvenir spoons and beer steins hanging like sweet memories in the small kitchen.

That was until the tax bill came this fall.

By Kim Murphy

Los Angeles Times

Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-montana-taxes3-2010jan03%2C0%2C3864486.story

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