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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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For a copy of the summary
publication, or "taxpayers
guide"
call (952) 928-7461.
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Study of Minnesota's "Hidden" Funds Released
While Minnesota's budget problems command the front pages of every newspaper
and dominate TV and radio news, it is a little known fact that as much
as 40 percent of state spending is conducted outside of the General Fund
and with little or no public scrutiny, through the states 36 separate
"Special Funds."
Originally created by legislative action to serve special needs, these
funds today represent more than $9 billion in annual spending, much of
it, according to the Minnesota Taxpayers Association (MTA), "hidden" from
taxpayers and largely unexamined in the press and by the legislature.
One of these funds, the "Special Revenue Fund," was examined in detail
and became the subject of a 72-page
report. The research for this highly detailed report was conducted
by the Minnesota Taxpayers Association's research affiliate, the Minnesota
Center for Public Finance and Research.
Funding for the study was provided by a grant from the Minnesota Chapter
of the NAIOP as part of its ongoing public policy and taxpayer education
program.
Rather than putting the valuable information in the full study on a shelf
to collect dust, NAIOP decided to create and broadly distribute a colorful,
graphically illustrated summary publication that takes this very complicated
subject and helps make it simple and easily understandable by the average
taxpayer.
Our hope is to shed light–for the benefit of both taxpayers and
legislators–on this significant and growing portion of state spending
that is not part of the General Fund.
For further information, contact:
Kaye Rakow
NAIOP Director of Public Policy
(952) 928-7461
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