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Committee advances bill to clarify and relieve sales-tax burden for durable medical equipment providers
Summary
House File 290, intended to resolve uncertainty about sales-tax treatment of durable medical equipment (DME) billed to insurers, was laid out for possible inclusion. Providers described repeated, time-consuming audits and urged clearer tax rules to avoid large preliminary assessments.
The House Tax Committee laid out House File 2 90 after testimony that current sales-tax rules create uncertainty and administrative burdens for providers of durable medical equipment (DME).
Representative Sam Anderson, the bill's author, said the measure would address long-running complexity in the tax treatment of equipment and supplies used to keep patients at home and help stabilize the DME provider market. "Tax policy in Minnesota has exempted all health care for over a century... DME providers do and they cover that cost of…
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