Minnesota House passes 2025 tax bill, House File 9, 93-39

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 9, a 2025 tax bill, on final passage by a roll call of 93 ayes and 39 nays after the body suspended its rules to permit immediate second and third readings.

Representative Greg Davids (R-Fillmore), author of the bill, described the package on the floor and urged support. "The moment you've all been waiting for, the 2025 tax bill's name is from a Beatles song, we can work it out. And we were very, very successful in that quest. We we did work it out," Davids said as he summarized major provisions.

The bill makes several revenue and policy changes highlighted by the authors and committee chairs: repeal of a sales-tax exemption for electricity sold to data centers (estimated to raise about $125 million), an increase in the gross-receipts tax on cannabis from 10 percent to 15 percent (estimated at $146 million), establishment of a refundable research-and-development (R&D) credit (budgeted at about $80 million), and a technical correction for sustainable aviation fuel that permits carry-forward of some funds. Sponsors said the bill did not reduce local…