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Idaho communities to receive $42.9M in federal PILT funding • Idaho Capital Sun [1]

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Date: 2025-07

Local governments in Idaho will receive $42.9 million in federal payments to cover the lack of property taxes from federal lands.

The Payments in Lieu of Taxes, or PILT, funds go to local jurisdictions that cannot tax the federal lands in their borders to cover the costs associated with maintaining community services, according to a press release.

Idaho Republican Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch jointly announced the 2025 payments in a press release Monday.

“Where the federal government owns large plots of land and does not pay local property taxes in rural communities, it has a responsibility to provide resources for vital services such as firefighting, police protection, construction of public schools and roads, and search-and-rescue operations,” Crapo said in the release. “PILT payments give Idaho’s 44 counties much-needed stability for essential services.”

Payments are calculated based on the number of acres of federal land within the jurisdiction and the population.

Idaho County, which encompasses the most federal lands with more than 4.5 million acres, is slated to receive about $2.3 million. Owyhee County, with 3.6 million acres of federal land, will get around $1.9 million.

Elmore County, where the Mountain Home Air Force Base is located, is slated to receive the most of any county, approximately $3.4 million.

The U.S. Department of Interior collects more than $20.7 billion in revenue annually from commercial activities on public lands, the release said. A portion of those revenues is shared with states and counties. The balance is deposited into the U.S. Treasury, which, in turn, pays for a broad array of federal activities, including PILT funding.

“Each of Idaho’s 44 counties rely on PILT payments to maintain and provide essential community services,” Risch said. “I remain fully committed to funding PILT to ensure local governments can offset the nontaxable, federal land within their borders.”

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