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Walz budget calls for zeroing out state funding for light rail operating costs and tapping 2024’s transit tax revenue
Transit and environmental advocates who pushed for the sales tax to expand rather than maintain transit are not happy with ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz proposes lower sales tax rate, spending cuts in his budget
Gov. Tim Walz is pitching his first budget under the new Trump era as a counterweight to the incoming president’s threats to ...
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How Walz’s proposed ‘tax cut’ would actually raise $108 million a year to help state budget
Walz wants to shift the tax burden to wealthier Minnesotans, but Republican House leaders say any increases are off the table ...
Budget: Walz pitches Minnesota's first sales tax cut, reduction in disability waiver spending
In regards to the statewide sales tax, Walz is proposing a .075% reduction to the tax rate alongside provisions to expand the ...
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When something isn’t taxed, we all have to pay higher taxes on everything else
Trump presidency brought no shortage of reasons to fear for the many public goods and services that we all rely on. It’s ...
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Walz’s sales tax cut and expansion push back, governor preparing for Trump tariffs
He wants to cut the statewide sales tax by 0.075% — which is $0.075 on a $100 purchase — moving it to 8.6% from 8.675%.
Walz 2025 budget would lower Minnesota sales taxes, add them to legal, financial services
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's proposed budget offers the first-ever cut to Minnesota's sale tax rate — but it would also expand the tax into new professional services.
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Bill to exempt more medical items from sales tax advances in Minnesota Senate
Rochester, is the chief author of a bill that would extend a sales tax exemption to a broader pool of medical devices and ...
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Walz proposes first sales tax cut in state history to balance budget
Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan presented their 2025 biennial budget, which included the first sales ...
'Officially dead': Waukesha County moves away from sales tax idea as budget solution
Waukesha County began serious consideration of a sales tax. Now the county will remain one of only two in the state without one.
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Walz unveils slimmer Minnesota budget, pitches sales tax cut
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan discusses the state’s proposed annual budget plan Thursday at the Minnesota Department of Revenue in St. Paul. The move to expand sales taxes to cover those services was ...