Are Large Cuts to the State Business Levy Affordable?

by | Mar 3, 2017

The series of tax changes enacted in 2001—which included the creation of a general state business property tax—have worked out well for businesses. The previous article in this series showed that if the changes that most directly pertain to businesses had never been...

Fiscal Disparity Program Reduces Business Tax Disparities

by | Jan 30, 2017

The seven-county metropolitan tax base sharing program has successfully reduced property tax disparities within the metro region, as revealed by analysis presented in the previous article in this series. By taxing a significant portion of the business value in the...

Business Property Taxes Not as High as We’re Led to Believe

by | Apr 26, 2016

A recent publication from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce contains a list of claims regarding the level of business property taxes in Minnesota relative to other states: 49th “worst” (i.e., second highest) among the fifty states for rural commercial property taxes,...