Instructions For Minnesota Property Tax Refund (Page 4 of 24) in pdf

General information

Information you will need

File by August 15, 2002

• If you owe delinquent property taxes on

your home, attach a receipt or a signed

Your Form M1PR should be received by

Renters: You must have a Form CRP,

confession of judgment statement from

the Department of Revenue by August 15,

Certificate of Rent Paid, for each rental unit

your county auditor’s or treasurer’s

2002. You will not receive a refund if your

you lived in during 2001. Your landlord is

office.

application is filed more than one year after

required by law to give you a completed

the original due date (after August 15,

2001 CRP no later than January 31, 2002.

Where to send Form M1PR

2003).

You will need the CRP to determine your

Mail your Form M1PR and all required

refund, and you must attach it to your

Sign your application

attachments in the pre-addressed envelope

completed Form M1PR.

included in this booklet. If you don’t have a

Be sure to sign your Form M1PR. If you are

pre-addressed envelope, send your

married and filing together, your spouse

If your landlord has not given you your

application to:

must also sign.

CRP by February 15, 2002, ask your

landlord for the form. If you still cannot get

Minnesota Property Tax Refund

Attachments

it, call the department at the numbers listed

St. Paul, MN 55145-0020

It is important that you make and save

on the front of this booklet.

copies of all your forms, schedules, and any

When to expect your refund

If you divorced or separated in 2001 and

required attachments, including your CRP

If the department receives your properly

one person moved out and the other per-

forms and/or property tax statement. You

completed return and all attachments are

son remained in the same rental unit, the

will be charged a fee to request copies of

correct and complete, you can expect your

landlord may issue a single CRP to the

your return from the department.

refund:

person who remained in the unit. If both

Staple your CRPs and/or the state copy of

• by mid-August if you are a renter or

persons moved out of the unit, the landlord

your property tax statement, worksheets (if

mobile home owner and you file by

will issue the CRP to the first person who

you had to fill them out) and any required

June 15, or within 60 days after you file,

requests it. The other person cannot apply

attachments to the back of your Form

whichever is later.

for a refund based on rent paid for that unit.

M1PR in the upper left corner.

• by the end of September if you are a

If you lived with a person other than your

If any of the following conditions apply to

homeowner and you file by August 2, or

spouse, you must apply for separate

you, the stated item is required to be

within 60 days after you file, whichever is

refunds. Your landlord is required to give

attached:

later.

each of you a separate CRP and show on

the CRPs that each of you paid an equal

• If you rented out part of your home to

If your return is incomplete or necessary

portion of the rent, regardless of the

others or you claimed depreciation for

information is not attached, your refund

portion you actually paid or whose names

business use (or claimed a portion of

will be delayed or your return will be sent

are on the lease.

your rent as a business expense), you

back to you.

must complete and attach the worksheet

Homeowners and mobile home own-

It is very important that you notify the

from page 10.

ers: You must have your Statement of

department if you move from the address

Property Taxes Payable in 2002. The

• If you are applying for the special

given on your Form M1PR before you

property tax statement you need is the one

property tax refund and you added or

receive your refund. If your refund check is

you receive in March or April of 2002 (June

made improvements to your home, you

not cashed within two years from the date

2002, if you are a mobile home owner). It is

must complete and attach the worksheet

it was issued, you may lose your right to the

not the notice of proposed taxes that you

from page 11.

refund.

received in November 2001.

• If line 1 of your Form M1PR does not

Penalties

If the property is not classified as home-

equal the amount on your federal return,

There are civil and criminal penalties for

stead on your property tax statement or

or if you include someone else’s income

knowingly providing false information and

you bought your home in 2001, you must

(other than your spouse) in your total

for filing a fraudulent return.

apply for homestead status with your

household income, attach an explana-

county assessor’s office and have it

tion.

approved on or before December 15, 2002.

• If your income is less than the rent you

At the time you apply for homestead status,

paid, attach an explanation of the source

get a signed statement saying that your

of your funds used to pay your rent.

application has been approved. You must

attach this statement to your Form M1PR.

• If you are a part-year resident who

rented during the year, attach a note

If you owe delinquent property taxes on

explaining how you determined your

your home, you have until August 15, 2003

income.

to pay or make arrangements to pay the

taxes you owe and still be able to claim

• If your property is not classified as

your refund. At the time you make

homestead on your property tax

arrangements to pay, get a receipt or a

statement, attach a signed statement

signed confession of judgment statement

from your county assessor’s office stating

from your county auditor’s or treasurer’s

that your homestead application has

office and attach it to your Form M1PR.

been approved.

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