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Biz ‘Bite:’ Department of Interior pays $32.6M in lieu of taxes
IBR Staff//June 27, 2022
Every year, the federal government makes cash payment to local governments in to help offset losses in property taxes due to the existence of nontaxable federal lands within their boundaries. The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on June 23 payments totaling $32.6 million to all 44 Idaho Counties through its Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
PILT payments are made annually for tax-exempt federal lands administered by DOI agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation. In addition, PILT payments cover federal lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers.
The payments varied from $9,052 to Lewis County up to $2.7 million to Elmore County. The acreages for the counties range from 4.5 million acres in Idaho County down to 3,081 acres in Lewis County. Valuations of what to pay per acre varied between $0.24/acre in Clark County, the least-populated county in the state, to a maximum of $2.94 in Bingham, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Minidoka, Power and Twin Falls counties.
| 2022 Federal Payments in Lieu of Taxes | |||
| County | Payment in Dollars | Dept. of Interior acres | Payment per acres |
| ADA | $873,010 | 297,843 | $2.93 |
| ADAMS | $466,577 | 551,206 | $0.85 |
| BANNOCK | $584,697 | 213,846 | $2.73 |
| BEAR LAKE | $734,310 | 285,663 | $2.57 |
| BENEWAH | $109,476 | 48,492 | $2.26 |
| BINGHAM | $883,061 | 300,736 | $2.94 |
| BLAINE | $2,412,024 | 1,325,117 | $1.82 |
| BOISE | $690,958 | 883,963 | $0.78 |
| BONNER | $958,003 | 454,018 | $2.11 |
| BONNEVILLE | $1,565,616 | 589,659 | $2.66 |
| BOUNDARY | $886,072 | 475,236 | $1.86 |
| BUTTE | $418,237 | 894,614 | $0.47 |
| CAMAS | $186,182 | 443,608 | $0.42 |
| CANYON | $55,674 | 19,111 | $2.91 |
| CARIBOU | $599,123 | 446,021 | $1.34 |
| CASSIA | $2,492,250 | 918,850 | $2.71 |
| CLARK | $168,439 | 702,090 | $0.24 |
| CLEARWATER | $895,763 | 845,357 | $1.06 |
| CUSTER | $840,021 | 2,935,288 | $0.29 |
| ELMORE | $2,715,467 | 1,357,417 | $2.00 |
| FRANKLIN | $337,742 | 139,442 | $2.42 |
| FREMONT | $1,345,900 | 702,126 | $1.92 |
| GEM | $348,059 | 133,309 | $2.61 |
| GOODING | $740,337 | 252,030 | $2.94 |
| IDAHO | $1,902,040 | 4,531,907 | $0.42 |
| JEFFERSON | $558,762 | 190,191 | $2.94 |
| JEROME | $282,828 | 96,305 | $2.94 |
| KOOTENAI | $718,994 | 244,731 | $2.94 |
| LATAH | $298,793 | 101,703 | $2.94 |
| LEMHI | $1,108,791 | 2,641,870 | $0.42 |
| LEWIS | $9,052 | 3,081 | $2.94 |
| LINCOLN | $988,034 | 585,237 | $1.69 |
| MADISON | $138,137 | 63,115 | $2.19 |
| MINIDOKA | $519,385 | 176,788 | $2.94 |
| NEZ PERCE | $92,374 | 31,959 | $2.89 |
| ONEIDA | $845,915 | 408,381 | $2.07 |
| OWYHEE | $1,573,666 | 3,635,489 | $0.43 |
| PAYETTE | $187,331 | 64,067 | $2.92 |
| POWER | $861,325 | 293,179 | $2.94 |
| SHOSHONE | $517,119 | 1,232,116 | $0.42 |
| TETON | $243,683 | 98,227 | $2.48 |
| TWIN FALLS | $1,874,975 | 638,226 | $2.94 |
| VALLEY | $859,909 | 2,048,867 | $0.42 |
| WASHINGTON | $906,204 | 340,622 | $2.66 |
| TOTAL | $35,794,315 | 32,641,103 | $1.10 |
