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Senate tax committee lays over sales-tax exemption pilot for two Northeastern Minnesota housing projects
Summary
The Senate Taxes Committee laid over Senate File 542, as amended, a bill to create a limited sales-tax exemption on construction materials for two housing projects in St. Louis County: a private redevelopment at a former Duluth Central High School site and an HRA project in Ely.
The Minnesota Senate Taxes Committee on Feb. 13 laid over Senate File 542, as amended, a measure that would exempt construction materials from state sales tax for two pilot housing projects in St. Louis County — a private redevelopment of a former Central High School site in Duluth and a Housing and Redevelopment Authority project in Ely.
The bill sponsor, Senator Hauschildt, told the committee the proposal "may seem familiar to you as we did bring this bill last year" and that she had offered an author’s amendment (A3) to limit the exemption to those two projects rather than the entire county. The committee adopted the A3 amendment before laying the bill over for inclusion in the omnibus tax…
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