ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is proposing Minnesotans pay a lower overall sales tax rate but that it should be applied to more goods and services, including clothes over $100.
The budget blueprint Dayton is unveiling Tuesday proposes big changes to the state's sales tax. It would apply the sales tax to some services now exempt, but would continue to exempt food and medical services along with clothing purchases under $100.
More things would be subject to the state sales tax, but its overall rate would drop from the current 6.875 percent down to 5.5 percent under Dayton's proposal. That's a 20-percent decrease, which Dayton's office says is the largest in state history.
They say Minnesota would go from the 7th highest sales tax rate to the 27th highest among U.S. states.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Comments (7)
Add commentI wonder if I am
Going to end up downstair's if I agree with him on this?? Oh well I will know alot of people there. Sounds OK to me if you would say what the good's & sevice's are & does that mean 100 bucks total on clothes you buy or just 1 item??
A sales tax
Maybe we should have a retroactive sales tax on spinal operations.
Where's Johnny
Hey, all you Ward supporters, what's Little Johnny's position on these new sales taxes. I'll bet he's fighting them tooth and nail in St Paul. LOL LOL LOL If he votes to raise taxes on clothing, are you going to pay the tax or run around naked without clothes and still vote for him if there is a next time. Scary, a bunch of naked liberals from the Brainerd area.
Ya raise taxes on those
Ya raise taxes on those eeeevil rich people with their cigarettes and $100 jackets...
They'll have to raise the income tax again.
Just to cover "needy" 47%'s clothing. They use the card that taxpayers pay for and can afford $200 worth of clothes at one time.
As an aside,
how many people (math teachers, for sure) will head to the register with $110 worth of clothes? Think about it..............
Dem House and Senate
doesn't guarantee anything.
Since Wild Bill can call for outlawing the Democratic party and rounding up and executing registered Dems, I guess it would just be fair to hope MN comes up with a poll tax for repubbies.