The objective of the State Housing Tax Credit is to increase the development and availability of affordable housing to persons and families of low and moderate incomes in Minnesota.

about 58% of respondents said that they would not have contributed to housing projects in Minnesota if the tax credit did not exist.

I am a little bit concerned if we're going to concentrate rental units in the seven-county metro versus uh home ownership opportunities and vice versa.

we're never going to when we look at the the impact and the the credit, where we're at, we're never going to tax credit our way into housing affordability. And so I think we've got a greater issue outside of uh uh about this tax credit is that we just drastically increase the cost to build a home in Minnesota.

the $100,000 appropriation will will help to offset uh the cost of an FTE uh for program administration. Other costs incurred by the agency are our closing and underwriting staff, uh attorneys, accounting staff that um end up contributing to to the um to the closing and and um getting across the finish line of projects.

The proposed objective of the exemption on essential tangible goods is to reduce the regressivity of the sales and use tax for low-income households.

it's good that furs and billfolds and other luxury goods are omitted from this, but if you go to the, you know, Dollar Tree and you buy a onesie for a $1.25 at the $1.25 Tree now, um you get a you don't pay sales tax on that. If you go buy a Gucci suit, you don't pay sales tax on that. And so, that's where you see that, you know, kind of that we're spending $1.2 billion and the vast majority of it is benefiting the highest-income Minnesotans who just buy more clothing, buy more expensive clothing.

The proposed objective of the film production credit is to encourage investment in Minnesota film productions.

I'm just wondering if there's a way that our objective statement can um capture that a little bit more um because if if this credit is performing the way folks anticipate that it is, I would assume that there would be um some data around ancillary economic development um in terms of uh you know, the location of where the production is, you know, the types of jobs both directly and indirectly from the film or the or the arts project um and similarly just kind of you know, what type of ripple effects there are from that.

The proposed objective of the non-resident military personnel exemption is to avoid double taxation of vehicles owned by armed forces members stationed in Minnesota by exempting them from the motor vehicle registration tax if the vehicle is already registered in their state of residence.

The proposed objective of the Medal of Honor recipients and former prisoners of war exemption is to make my license plates more affordable and accessible to Medal of Honor recipients and former prisoners of war.

The proposed objective of the disabled veterans exemption is to provide state tax relief on a motor vehicle that is given in whole or part to a disabled veteran by the federal government and to decrease vehicle related costs for all disabled veterans living in the state of Minnesota.

The proposed objective is to reduce the cost of transporting students to and from educational institutions so more resources can be allocated for education purposes.

The proposed objective for the preferential computation is to reduce the tax burden on companies contracted by Minnesota school districts to provide the same service as school buses um owned or leased by uh school districts themselves.

The proposed objective for the drivers education program at non-public high schools exemption is to extend the same tax benefit to non-public high schools and other educational institutions receive for providing driver education and training by reducing their operational costs related to vehicle registration.

The proposed objective for this expenditure is to extend the same tax benefit to commercial driving schools that public and private schools receive for providing driver's education training by reducing the operational costs related to vehicle registration.

The objective of the motor vehicle registration tax exemption for local government vehicles is to extend the general sales tax exempt status for local governments to vehicles that are owned or leased by political subdivisions of Minnesota.

The objective of the transport of disabled persons by non-profit charities exemption is to extend the tax exempt status of charitable organizations to include the motor vehicle registration tax and to reduce administrative costs for non-profit organizations that provide charitable services.

The objective of the private ambulance services exemption is to provide consistent treatment of emergency vehicles and provide state assistance to private ambulance services providing emergency response services.