Taxing livestock in Montana, even bees !!

Just found out that the great state of Montana taxes all livestock, even bees!!!
Everything from cattle, sheep, pigs to chickens and bee hives.
Not that much, ($0.05 per chicken, $0.41 per bee hive),  but still...... next gardens???

Here is a link to the website with the fees:
https://mtrevenue.gov/property/property-types/livestock/

Dennis Barrow wrote:Just found out that the great state of Montana taxes all livestock, even bees!!!
Everything from cattle, sheep, pigs to chickens and bee hives.
Not that much, ($0.05 per chicken, $0.41 per bee hive),  but still...... next gardens???

Here is a link to the website with the fees:
https://mtrevenue.gov/property/property-types/livestock/

Seems like that would be terribly hard to enforce unless you were a commercial operation.

I can see a chicken factory polluting the shared ground water/environment. And them paying a chicken fee to have someone help undo their damage.

Hi Dennis;  
I've lived here in Montana over 40 years. I've had pigs each summer for over 20 years. I've had a few cows over the years .This is the first I've heard of this.
I went to the website.
It appears this is voluntary reporting.  I suspect they really only enforce this at big ranches, that are taking livestock/ranch  tax credits.

Seems, purely by accident I have been legal all these years... Whew no need to turn myself in   : )
Only pigs older than 3 months in February need be reported , so my 6 week old wieners in April that get slaughtered in October don't get counted... Like I was EVER  going to report myself...