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Tax working group the first to make public preparations for a special session
By Rob Hubbard
While that might not have been the suggestion that jumpstarted the process of crafting a 2025 Minnesota tax bill, the Legislature’s first public post-session discussions on a new budget have started with a taxes working group, which met both Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Consisting of five senators and four representatives, the group’s charge is to find common ground and compromises between the proposals that came out of their respective taxes committees, each since revised to meet the budget targets handed down from leadership last Thursday morning.
“These decisions will be made in public,” said Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope), who chaired the first meeting. “We have been directed by our leaders to function as if we are a conference committee.”
But not all information the working group is employing is public, as evidenced by a Tuesday disagreement about what policy provisions are part of the agreement between Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders.
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