Taxes in Watford City
Watford City's tax picture combines a genuinely low local property tax rate with North Dakota's otherwise favorable statewide tax structure.
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Learn moreA genuinely low local property tax rate
Watford City's own cited effective property tax rate (~0.75%) runs below both the national (~1.02%) and North Dakota statewide (~0.99%) comparison figures -- a real, disclosed advantage.
North Dakota's genuinely favorable income tax structure
North Dakota's three-bracket income tax structure (0%, 1.95%, 2.50% top marginal) is cited by multiple sources as the lowest top marginal income tax rate of any US state that levies an income tax at all.
A real, disclosed internal data inconsistency
This record found a real, internal inconsistency in its own property-tax source: a cited median tax bill (~$2,026) runs higher than that same source's own cited 75th-percentile figure ($1,728), a genuine, unreconciled conflict this record discloses rather than resolves.
Key takeaways
- Watford City's own effective property tax rate (~0.75%) runs below national and ND statewide comparison figures.
- North Dakota's 2.50% top marginal income tax rate is genuinely the lowest of any income-tax state.
- A real, disclosed internal inconsistency exists in this record's own property-tax-bill sourcing.
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