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 NAIOP Minnesota's 2013 Property Tax Talking Points
For Minnesota’s thousands of job-creating small businesses, our dozens of Fortune 500 employers, and our tens of thousands of entrepreneurs innovating and working to build a brighter economic future...
--COSTS MATTER--
...and the costs that matter most are the fixed costs they cannot control, such as the property taxes they must pay on the buildings they own or in which they lease space to office or operate.
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 “As our members talk to their business tenants across the state, the message they hear over and over is loud and strong: Costs matter...and among the costs they must deal with, Minnesota’s business property taxes continue to be the single major expense over which they have absolutely no control.”
David L. Kordonowy
President/CEO, Steiner Development
2013 President, NAIOP Minnesota
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 The Amazing Power of a Penny: Ongoing Support from Current Contributors
"The Penny Per Square Foot Fund has proven itself over the years since its start to be one of the best investments we can make..."
~Pat Mascia, Duke Realty Corporation
"Without NAIOP’s Penny Per Square Foot Fund our tenants would still be paying the highest property taxes in the nation."
~Stew Stender, Stewart Capital Partners
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 A Message to Governor Dayton and Minnesota's Legislators
“As we listen to our tenants every day, one message remains constant: costs really matter to them…and new, friendlier policies regarding business property taxes and regulation would go far in assuring their success and speeding Minnesota’s economic recovery, especially with regard to employment.”
Pat Mascia, Senior Vice President–Minneapolis/St. Paul Operations, Duke Realty, 2012 President, NAIOP Minnesota
NAIOP Minnesota introduces its 2012 president and public policy team, along with its legislative priorities.
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 NAIOP Minnesota's 2012 Property Tax Talking Points
For Minnesota’s thousands of job-creating small businesses, our dozens of Fortune 500 employers, and our tens of thousands of entrepreneurs innovating and working to build a brighter economic future...
--COSTS MATTER--
...and the costs that matter most are the fixed costs they cannot control, such as the property taxes they must pay on the buildings they own or in which they lease space to office or operate.
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 Q: What does greater transparency in government spending have to do with property taxes?
A: Everything!
It's time to unveil the drivers behind the rising cost of public services and the demand for increasing local tax revenues.
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Transparency Proposal Talking Points for NAIOP members
Transparency Proposal FAQ
Transparency Proposal Press Release, Initiative to Spur Greater Transparency in Local Government Spending Launched by NAIOP Minnesota
Ultimately local government spending drives property tax levies and, in turn, property taxpayers’ bills. This is the most influential piece of the property tax system. It is also the most important and—in many ways—the most challenging element for taxpayers to understand.
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 The place will be filled with new people.
Referring to the state capitol on January 4th, the opening of the 2011 legislative session.
Who are these “Newbies”?
In all, an amazing 60 new legislators—24 new Senators and 36 new members in the House.
To introduce them to NAIOP Minnesota and our issues, we have sent to each of them, along with their returning incumbent counterparts this publication. NAIOP’s story and priorities are told through the words of our own members and our public policy team leaders. Read our latest publication.
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 2010 Comparative Tax Study
An urgent message to our state’s policymakers … Minnesota’s job-creators are eager to go back to work!
NAIOP’s 23rd annual Comparative Tax Study shows that the property tax burden under which Minnesota businesses labor tops all other states in our study but one.
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 NAIOP President's Message to Minnesota Business Leaders and State Policymakers:
"Supporting Minnesota's economic recovery and assuring future job growth in our state will require policies that restore business confidence and assure investors, risk-takers and employers."
-- Doug Fulton, Senior Director, Cushman & Wakefield of Minnesota, Inc., 2010 NAIOP Minnesota President
Click here to read the balance of NAIOP's message sent to 2000 businesses across the state, members of the Minnesota Legislature, Governor Pawlenty and constitutional officers.
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 2010 Property Tax Education Flyer
Increasing fixed costs, such as property taxes, on any Minnesota employer in this tough economy will only make it even more difficult for them to retain existing employees and keep them working, let alone create new jobs or bring back workers who have already been laid off.
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 Influencing the Process – the 2009 Legislative Session
Cover memo from Director of Public Policy on 2009 Legislative Session
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 In this special Situation Report, NAIOP Minnesota “connects the dots” with an assessment of the 2009 Legislative Session.
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 2009 Comparative Tax Study
An urgent message to Minnesota's policymakers...
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 2009 Property Tax Education Flyer
It is likely that a proposal to increase business property taxes over and above the already projected statewide increase of 8% for 2009 will be on the legislative agenda again this year. In preparation for that debate, it is important that business property taxpayers fully understand Minnesota's dual system of taxing commercial and industrial property. NAIOP in partnership with the Coalition of Minnesota Businesses, the Minnesota Business Partnership and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has developed a special educational flyer explaining that system.
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 Setting the stage for the 2009 legislative session.
This issue of TaxWatch provides NAIOP members with talking points, facts and figures to use when communicating with policymakers about business property taxes.
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 2008 TaxWatch, Issue 2
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Everyone who benefits from reduced C/I property taxes, won by NAIOP’s efforts, should be contributing to the PPSF fund. Your pennies are needed to keep this momentum going.
Remember the PPSF fund in your budgets
Read what contributors to the PPSF fund are saying.
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 NAIOP's 21st Annual Comparative Tax Study
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 “Our primary obligation to our PPSF contributors, to our members, and to our tenants is to not give up any of the property tax gains we have worked so hard to achieve.”
--Murray Kornberg, 2008 President of NAIOP-Minnesota, interviewed in TaxWatch.
Read the entire article in NAIOP’s most recent issue of TaxWatch.
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 “Sharing the Wealth”
A New NAIOP Publication Designed To Educate Metro Area Commercial And Industrial Property Taxpayers About The Fiscal Disparities Program
Click here to read the press release about the Fiscal Disparities publication
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 NAIOP's Business Taxation Study, based on a new study from the Minnesota Taxpayers Association.
The full study can be found at ENTIRE STUDY
Read MTA Press Release
Read Star Tribune Editorial on MTA Study
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Feedback Forum
Chaired by Peter Kordonowy, Steiner Development
Real World Experiences from the Leading Edge of Economic Growth
In addition to being the leading provider of housing for Minnesota's businesses, NAIOP members – in their positions as managers, brokers, developers and investors in commercial and industrial facilities – play an important role in capturing the significant economic opportunities created when businesses expand or relocate to our state. However, our members' efforts to compete successfully against other states for the new jobs and investments that these companies bring with them are frequently frustrated by conditions beyond our control. The costs of doing business, governmental attitudes, lack of economic incentives, and other business climate issues can cancel out all of the advantages the "Minnesota option" has to offer, such as a highly skilled and productive workforce, superior education, and cultural and lifestyle benefits.
As a mechanism for creating a bank of these "real world" experiences gathered from the workday lives of our 850 individual members, and the thousands of companies that are tenants in our members' owned or managed facilities, the Public Policy Committee is proposing to establish a "Feedback Forum" – an organized method for collecting, verifying and disseminating reliable anecdotal information on this growing problem, that has the potential to do significant harm to the our industry, and other industries in the State of Minnesota.
Our objectives for the Feedback Forum are:
- To support the work of the Public Policy Committee in its ongoing efforts to educate Minnesotas civic leaders and legislators about the actual or potential impact of their tax and fiscal decisions and initiatives on individual businesses, their employees and the communities in which they operate and compete.
- To supplement objective and highly credible information that we currently provide to legislators, the press, and the taxpaying public – through our Comparative Tax Study, TaxWatch, and other studies and reports about the ability of our industry, and our state, to compete effectively for new business investment and jobs – with new, reliable data drawn from the actual experiences of our members and our business tenants.
Peter Kordonowy is in the process of recruiting members for the Forum. The committee list and additional details will be available soon. |
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