Signal boost - MN Dept.of Rvenue targets working artists

[mmerriam]

Originally posted by catherineldf at Signal boost - MN Dept.of Rvenue targets working artists

The MN Department of Revenue decides that its auditors can define artistic "success" - http://www.minnpost.com/minnpost-asks/2013/04/talking-taxman-about-poetry-and-deductions

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[timprov.livejournal.com]

There's a weird double-jeopardy thing here. You can be sure that if Minnesota follows through and declares the business a hobby, the feds are not going to give 25 years of self-employment tax back.

The two taxing authorities should not get to have different opinions on what's a business and what isn't.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

I agree, but getting the state legislature to adopt changes to bring MN into alignment with new federal tax laws is a struggle we face every year.

And then there's whatever weird bits of legalese get slipped into MN bills which affect DOR in odd ways having nothing to do with federal taxes.