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MINNESOTA PROPERTY TAXESBY THE NUMBERS
2009 EDITION
 Jef Van WychenMinnesota 2020 FellowApril 2009
 
Table of Contents___ 
Executive Summary 1Introduction-The Last Seven Years 5Property Tax Data: 2002 to 2009 12Conclusion: A Call for Accountability 19Appendix A 20Appendix B 23References 26
 
MN Property Taxes by the Numbers 2009 1
Executive Summary___________________ 
Since 2002, Minnesota property taxes, in general, and homeowner property taxes, in parcular, have increasedrapidly. The cause of the statewide growth in property taxes is not growth in local government budgets.These property tax hikes are the result of state policies that require more public costs to be borne by propertytaxpayers and a larger share of total property taxes to be borne by homeowners.Of the 854 cies in Minnesota, 677 (79.3 percent) experienced an increase in per capita property taxes from
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*A “homestead” refers to an owner-occupied housing unit.
2002 to 2009, while560 (65.6 percent)
experienced an increase
of ten percent or more.The average homestead
*
 property tax among
Minnesota cies hasincreased even more
rapidly than per capita
taxes. Of Minnesota’s854 cies, 746 (87.4percent) saw an increasein the average homesteadproperty tax from 2002to 2009, while 530 (62.1percent) experienced anincrease of 20 percent or
more.
It is important to adjust for the impact of inaon when assessing changes in state and local governmentrevenue over me so as to disnguishbetween real spending growth versusgrowth caused by erosion in thepurchasing power of the dollar. In thisreport, all changes in tax and revenueamounts over me are adjustedfor inaon in the cost of state andlocal government purchases, unless
otherwise noted.Appendices A and B show growth
from 2002 to 2009 in per capitaproperty taxes and averagehomestead property taxes for allMinnesota cies with a populaonover 5,000.
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