Instructions For Minnesota Property Tax Refund (Page 23 of 24) in pdf

Use of information

Information is private

• any Minnesota state, county, city or other

• a district court to determine eligibility for

local government agency that you are

a public defender.

All information you fill in on Form M1PR is

asking to issue or renew your professional

private. The department will use the

There also may be instances in which the

license or your license to conduct

information to determine your property tax

Department of Revenue will assist other

business, including a gambling equipment

refund and may include information as part

state agencies in mailing information to you.

distributor license and a bingo hall

of tax research studies. Also, according to

Although the department does not share

license,

state law, the department may share some or

your address information, the department

• the Minnesota Department of Labor and

all of the information with:

may send the information to you on behalf

Industry for purposes of administering tax

of the other state agency.

• the IRS and other state governments for

and workers’ compensation laws,

tax administration purposes,

• the Minnesota Department of Trade and

Information not required

• Minnesota state or county agencies to

Economic Development if you are

Although requested on your Form M1PR,

which you owe money,

participating in an enterprise zone,

you are not required to provide:

• another person who must list some or all

• a county, city or town government that

• your date of birth, or your spouse’s date

of your income on his or her refund

has been designated as an enterprise zone,

of birth if filing a joint return, although

application,

• the Minnesota State Lottery before you

we ask that you provide it for security

• the Minnesota Department of Human

can contract to sell lottery tickets, or if

purposes,

Services for purposes of child support

you win a lottery prize of $600 or more,

collection, the telephone assistance

• a code number indicating a political party

• a local assessor for purposes of determin-

for the state elections campaign fund,

program, the supplemental housing

ing whether homestead benefits have been

allowance, the MinnesotaCare program,

• your telephone number, although we ask

claimed appropriately,

or other assistance programs,

that you provide it in case we have to

• the Department of Health for purposes of

contact you about your form, or

• a court that has found you to be delin-

the MinnesotaCare program and epide-

quent in child support payments,

• the telephone number and Minnesota tax

miologic investigations,

• the Minnesota Department of Economic

ID, Social Security number, or PTIN of

• the Legislative Auditor for purposes of

the person you paid to prepare your

Security if you received reemployment

auditing the Department of Revenue or a

application.

(unemployment) compensation,

legislative program,

• the Minnesota Racing Commission if you

All other information requested on Form

• the Department of Commerce for

apply for or hold a license issued by the

M1PR is required by law. If you do not fill in

purposes of the unclaimed property act,

commission, or own a horse entered in an

the required information, your property tax

• sources necessary to use statutorily

event licensed by the commission,

refund may be delayed or denied.

authorized collection tools, or

Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral Program

What is it?

If you participate, a tax lien will be placed on

• There must be no state or federal tax liens

your property. You, or your heirs, will need

or judgment liens on your property.

The Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral

to repay the deferred amount before you can

Program is a voluntary program which

• The total unpaid balance of debts secured

transfer title of the property.

allows eligible senior citizens to postpone

by mortgages and other liens against your

paying — or defer — a portion of their

property cannot exceed 75 percent of the

Eligibility requirements

homestead property taxes.

estimated market value of your home-

To participate in the program, you must

stead.

If you are eligible and wish to participate in

meet all of the following requirements:

the program, you will be required to pay no

If you qualify and wish to participate, you

more than 3 percent of your household

• You must be at least 65 years of age or

must apply by July 1 to defer a portion of

income toward your property taxes on your

older. If you are married, both you and

the following year’s property tax. Applica-

homestead each year. The state will loan

your spouse must be at least 65 years of

tions are available in your county auditor’s

you the remaining amount — the deferred

age.

office.

tax — and will pay it directly to your

• Your total household income may not

For more information

county.

exceed $60,000.

If you need additional information, call the

You must pay the deferred tax back to the

• You, or your spouse if you are married,

Property Tax Division of the Minnesota

state. Also, when you apply for a property

must have owned and occupied your

Department of Revenue at:

tax refund or when you are due a state

homestead for the last 15 years. The

income tax refund, your refund will be

651-296-0335, or

homestead can be classified as residential

applied to your deferred property tax total.

1-800-652-9094, extension 6-0335

or agricultural, or it may be part of a

You will be notified when a refund is used to

multi-unit building.

TTY users may call the Minnesota Relay

reduce the amount of your deferred tax.

Service at 1-800-627-3529 and ask for

1-800-652-9094, extension 6-0335.

Instructions For Minnesota Property Tax Refund Page 23

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