ND oil tax Legacy Fund tops $700 million in assets

This story was filed on December 27, 2012

North Dakota’s oil tax fund now has $707 million in assets. The Legacy Fund gets 30 percent of the state’s oil tax collections. None of the money can be spent until 2017, and even then it takes a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to dip into it. read more

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