WILLMAR -- The chairman of the House Taxes Committee says proposed repeal of the statewide business property tax is a top-tier tax relief priority of the House Republican caucus because counties should not be collecting state tax dollars.
The statewide business property tax was implemented about 10 years ago because a former top Democratic senator said that businesses don't pay enough property taxes, says Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston, House Taxes Committee chairman.
Davids, who spoke today in Willmar, was quoting the senator from a news story published 10 or 11 years ago in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"I don't think that local units of government -- counties -- should have to collect state tax dollars,'' Davids said in an interview following informal remarks to members of the Little Crow chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.
