{"id":351,"date":"2017-06-20T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gopherstatepolitics.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:19:52","slug":"minnesota-taxes-persons-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/minnesota-taxes-persons-dental-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Minnesota Taxes Have To Do With A Person\u2019s Dental Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a puzzling question.\u00a0 Why should taxes determine where you obtain dentistry?\u00a0 We believe most of us might wonder what role, if any, taxes play in what state you can choose your dentist.\u00a0 The whole idea seems silly.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it is a real issue when it comes to one or two Minnesota taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a case in point.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the weekend, we were socially talking before an event started with a charming couple and it turned out they spend seven months out of each year in a southern state.\u00a0 We bemusingly said to them why would they do that we knew darn well that it involved tax residency, as you can learn with resources from an <a href=\"https:\/\/taxbite.uk\/blog\/\">Accounting blog<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<p>The wife who is just a lovely down-to-earth person went on to mention that it did cause problems for her because she couldn\u2019t find a dentist in that southern state that she liked as well as her Minnesota dentist but that she wasn\u2019t allowed to use the Minnesota dentist.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 That\u2019s crazy isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 You betcha!\u00a0 However, it is a reality&#8211;she feels that she cannot keep her Minnesota dentist.\u00a0 Big Brother Minnesota Revenue is waiting in the weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Catch on yet?\u00a0 Sorry to be nebulous.\u00a0 We wanted to create a little suspense before pouncing on the issue.\u00a0 The weekend, June 17-18, 2017 <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>surfaced this question in an article titled \u201cMore States Are Killing the Estate Tax\u201d.\u00a0 The article does touch on Minnesota increasing its exemptions some but that\u2019s a subject for another day.\u00a0 Yes, the lovely lady mentioned above can\u2019t use her Minnesota dentist because of the Minnesota estate tax helped along with the extraordinarily high 25% increase in the state personal income tax enacted in 2013.\u00a0 We call that the &#8220;Edina Tax&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about state tax residency.\u00a0 Our Minnesota Revenue has something like 26 tests to assign state residency to you even when you physically live in another state.\u00a0 What they are saying is if you meet some of their tests such as getting your medical care here, using other professional services such as legal, accounting and financial advisory-you haven\u2019t really left Minnesota so they can come after you for taxes as if you are a resident living here.<\/p>\n<p>That is a very popular political position to take-soak the presumably wealthier individuals.\u00a0 Make them pay their fair share.\u00a0 So, we nail the rich boys, but what do we do to the working class individuals here if we drive the wealthiest out of state? What do we do to our other tax collections such as income and sales?\u00a0 Are there other collateral damages such as lesser charitable contributions, business formations, job creation and a slower economy for all of us that are left here?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sure the couple cited above would spend more money in Minnesota if they were here oftener or didn\u2019t have the fear of being classified as residents.\u00a0 Why wouldn\u2019t we welcome them to use Minnesota services from wherever they live and spend money here that will fall into the tax stream and benefit those who do work for them?\u00a0 If non-residents or former residents want to spend money here for anything, please let them do so without trying to game them into residency status.<\/p>\n<p>Political posturing is a magnificent thing.\u00a0 We don\u2019t think it does much for most of the people here regardless of their income status.\u00a0 It possibly hurts the so-called little guy more than one would be led to believe.\u00a0 The extra-high individual income tax bracket of 9.85% and the estate tax in general we believe are overall negatives to Minnesota\u2019s tax revenue collections.\u00a0 There are consequences to what we do in tax policy whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Where do we stand?\u00a0 What is our answer?\u00a0 We believe it would be wise and in our best economic interest for the Minnesota legislature to repeal the 2013 Edina individual income tax bracket of 9.85% and eliminate the estate tax in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota is losing working age taxpaying people from age 35 years and up.\u00a0 We are losing seniors and their wealth.\u00a0 The IRS data show us as net losers of taxpaying population. We need to convincingly address this problem.\u00a0 The two changes recommended above would be a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Smith 3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Gopher State Politics Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a puzzling question.\u00a0 Why should taxes determine where you obtain dentistry?\u00a0 We believe most of us might wonder what role, if any, taxes play in what state you can choose your dentist.\u00a0 The whole idea seems silly.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it is a real issue when it comes to one or two Minnesota taxes. Here is <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/minnesota-taxes-persons-dental-care\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,97,7,2,175,169,171,4,170,174,173,172,160],"class_list":{"0":"post-351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-dental-care","8":"tag-edina-tax","9":"tag-estate-taxes","10":"tag-gopher-state-politics","11":"tag-lower-tax","12":"tag-medical-care","13":"tag-minnesota-estata-tax","14":"tag-minnesota-taxes","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-repeal-2013-edina-tax","17":"tag-tax-residency","18":"tag-wall-street-journal","19":"tag-wsj","20":"entry","21":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopherstatepolitics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}