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Committee advances bill to extend year-round sales-tax exemption to residential electricity and natural gas
Summary
House File 9, presented by Representative Swazinski, would extend Minnesota’s year-round sales-tax exemption for residential heating fuels to include electricity and natural gas; the committee approved sending the bill to Ways and Means after Representative Gomez withdrew an amendment that would have redirected the revenue to LIHEAP.
House File 9, presented to the House Tax Committee by Representative Swazinski, would add electricity and natural gas sold for residential use to Minnesota’s existing year-round sales-tax exemption for residential heating fuels. The committee voted to send the bill to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The bill’s tax provision — appearing on pages 5.13 through 5.24 of the draft — would extend the long-standing sales-tax exemption that already covers fuel oil, coal, wood, steam, hot water, propane and LP gas to residential electricity and natural gas, making those utilities exempt from sales tax year-round for residential heating use.
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