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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/18/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm calling this meeting of the Tax Committee to order for March 18th, 2026.
  • </c><00:03:42.640><c> implications</c> there's a lot of tax implications there's a lot of tax implications
  • </c><00:14:37.680><c> charity</c> hospitals report a charge-based charity hospitals report a charge-based
  • ><00:26:59.000><c> market</c> have a strong employer-based market have a strong employer-based market
  • While those gaps through property taxes.
Bills: HF4343
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/25/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • our tax base.
  • the</c> &gt;&gt; this allows the tax base to capture the &gt;&gt; this allows the tax base to capture
  • </c> the overall sales tax base? the overall sales tax base? Representatively. Representatively.
  • House File 4343 helps us solve this problem by broadening the tax base so that it reflects the truth
  • 01:41:12.240><c> that</c><01:41:12.480><c> it</c> broadening the tax base so that it broadening the tax
Bills: HF4561, HF4343
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/24/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • that's based on uh consumption tax model that's based on uh consumer<00:05:21.440><c> spending</c><00
  • And it doesn't tax base in Minnesota.
  • tax base a lot contractions to the sales tax base a lot of<01:17:58.880><c> times</c><01:17:59.280><
  • exemptions which narrow our tax base and is not good tax policy.
  • exemptions, which narrow our tax base and is not good tax policy.
Bills: HF331, HF916
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Edfin Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It helps our Greater Minnesota school districts that don't have the same tax benefits. ...tax base of
  • rate through the seasonal tax base replacement aid would account for about $226,000 of that $720,000
  • were being asked to pay for the same amount of revenue per student just because of the tax base.
  • Okay, just making sure. provided a short bill description, just explaining what the seasonal tax base
  • Department goes into the assumptions about this bill, explaining that the seasonal tax base adjustment
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/1/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It helps our Greater Minnesota school districts that don't have the same tax base as some of our districts
  • replacement Aid aimed at tax-based replacement Aid aimed at reducing<00:01:46.000><c> the</c><00:01:
  • /c><00:02:19.200><c> our</c> have the same tax base as some of our have the same tax base as some of
  • <c> base</c><00:08:07.240><c> replacement</c><00:08:07.840><c> Aid</c> the seasonal tax base replacement
  • </c><00:15:32.600><c> base</c><00:15:32.920><c> adjustment</c> will be the seasonal tax base adjustment
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Ways & Means

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I formerly worked as a tax lawyer.
  • tax returns show zero due.
  • There was a time where the property tax in Arizona is what I call king tax.
  • We didn't have income tax. We didn't have sales tax. We had property tax.
  • our property tax system.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/26/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman of the tax committee. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman of the tax committee.
  • </c> Housing Tax Credit, House File 3902. Housing Tax Credit, House File 3902.
  • </c><01:15:17.920><c> And</c> the tax omnibus bill. And the tax omnibus bill.
  • </c> he's needed in taxes. he's needed in taxes.
  • </c> taxes but you're highly wanted in taxes. taxes but you're highly wanted in taxes.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Apr 27th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this is a subcommittee that will explore a tax credit. That's right.
  • So a tax credit effectively reduces our revenue.
  • How would you envision if they recommend we do the state tax credit?
  • What would the tax exemption go?
  • So, I mean, you can see it when you do your taxes that...
Bills: HR118, HB1039, SB436, SB442
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means May 5th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Is that assuming at some point that we may go to a centralized state sales tax collection?
  • So that would have to be an agreement made by the taxpayer and the taxing authority.
  • And they need to have that right to be able to audit businesses for their sales tax.
  • Louisiana... ...Tax Board and Renee Ellender Robbery with Louisiana Remote Sales Tax Commission for
  • Them to collect their sales tax.
Bills: HB1039, SB423, SB436
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/27/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> a refundable sales tax sales and use tax a refundable sales tax sales and use tax exemption<00:04
  • pay sales tax on right now.
  • </c><01:08:36.600><c> base</c><01:08:37.520><c> has</c> erode the sales tax base has erode the sales
  • tax base has implications<01:08:38.239><c> for</c><01:08:38.440><c> the</c><01:08:38.560><c> general<
  • </c><01:25:56.440><c> gas</c><01:25:56.719><c> tax</c> sales tabs tax delivery fee the gas tax sales
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Mar 17th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • So if you have an increase in your tax base, the only way to get that same amount of revenue is to lower
  • So what happens is that tax base grows every year.
  • So what happens is that tax base grows.
  • They'd only levy the 2.0, which would generate more money because the tax base grows.
  • base is going to raise—it is going to cause you to pay less taxes.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Ways & Means Mar 10th, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Texas homeowners know that their property tax taxes contribute to public school funding and assume that
  • And the tax bill, the percentage of school taxes allocated to school funding versus the percentage of
  • tax.
  • Have a good evening, this is prohibits a personal income tax, there is no explicit prohibition of a tax
  • tax.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/8/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Today, sales tax rate varies based on municipalities, cities, and of course our state sales tax.
  • </c> our state tax sales tax. our state tax sales tax.
  • that don't have a big sales tax base.
  • that don't have a big sales tax base.
  • Do you have the tax base to support what you really need?
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 6th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • and therefore property tax bills for school taxes across the state.
  • current tax rates from 3.5% to 2.5% or less.
  • How does the 2.5 in your bill compare to trying to control property taxes based... based on inflation
  • taxing units.
  • Senate Bill 9 relating to the calculation of the voter approval tax rate for certain taxing units.
Bills: SB15, SB9, SB7, SB1, SB2, SB67, SB15, SB9, SB7
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 10th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • receipts by the state of Texas, another $642 million in tax receipts. in local taxing authorities.
  • Based on the data from the Alzheimer's Association in...
  • Is that we don't have a surplus of property taxes, but we do have a surplus of sales tax.
  • I just think the distinction here is that that's excess or surplus sales tax not property tax.
  • We implore our legislators to cut back. on the fees, the taxes, the gas tax, the sales tax.
Bills: HB5, HJR3, HB155, HB513, HB5, HB155
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows delinquent tax properties.
  • ,</c> whatever uh and payment of taxes, whatever uh and payment of taxes, unpayment<01:01:34.640><c>
  • </c><01:01:35.760><c> of</c> unpayment of taxes over a period of unpayment of taxes over a period of
  • :04.160><c> blight</c> on the tax role, eliminate that blight on the tax role, eliminate that blight
  • and you pay taxes and intend to gain possession of this property, then they ought to pay the taxes.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 24th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • Legacy regulations at the local level have artificially restricted what is a market-based solution for
  • We believe it's not market-based, and it's not Texas.
  • As you know, Texas has a long history of pursuing market-based solutions, and we think HB 3892's removal
  • This is another market-based win for the people of Texas.
  • Worth and to forego exempting regional water CCNs in expanding the exempt radius around our military base
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 24th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Texas Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program plays a critical role in the development and construction
  • credit requirements, specifically when awarded low-income housing tax credits.
  • And I'm also a developer of affordable rental housing based out of the Houston market.
  • that was passed out of the Senate and gives a buffer within 15 miles of the boundary of a military base
  • We are a science-based organization that's worked across Texas, actually in all of your districts or