Last-minute tax filers will be greeted by members of AFSCME Council 5 on Tax Day, Tuesday, April 18 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at post offices in Brainerd, Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Cloud. Union volunteers will ask taxpayers a simple question:
"Do you want to pay more so the rich can pay less?"
Under GOP proposals, tax breaks for top earners and big corporations would cost Minnesota more than a billion dollars a year. The richest 5 percent of Minnesotans pay 11.3 percent of their income in state and local taxes. Meanwhile, working families pay 12.2 percent. Thanks to Gov. Dayton, the tax disadvantage that middle-income families
experience has diminished, but they're still paying 8 percent more per dollar of income in state and local taxes than their wealthy neighbors (Source: Minnesota Department of Revenue, 2017 Tax Incidence Study).