The US Census tracks the Property Tax revenue by State since 1992. This is a staggering image of the revenue MN is generating from property taxes. Don’t tell me we don’t have any money… (updated data 4/16/2012)
Title: State Government Tax Collections, Property Taxes in Minnesota
Series ID: MNPROPTAX
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce: Census Bureau
Release: State Government Tax Collections (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Applicable
Frequency: Annual
Units: Thousands of Dollars
Date Range: 1992-01-01 to 2011-01-01
Last Updated: 2012-04-16 4:19 PM CDT
Notes: For more information, see
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/statetax.html.
DATE VALUE
1992-01-01 7961
1993-01-01 8155
1994-01-01 8200
1995-01-01 8632
1996-01-01 8288
1997-01-01 9748
1998-01-01 9772
1999-01-01 9281
2000-01-01 9411
2001-01-01 9509
2002-01-01 305573
2003-01-01 585416
2004-01-01 607863
2005-01-01 619122
2006-01-01 634697
2007-01-01 674559
2008-01-01 712463
2009-01-01 713019
2010-01-01 765742
2011-01-01 774891
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Holy cats. You’re not kidding. Fact that revenues didn’t go down during recession and have increased since is shocking in light of fact that property values have collapsed. Tax rates must have shot up to the moon to maintain/increase collections!
They have indeed… I don’t get why the government is broke…