According to the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota’s updated review of recent county board actions, at least 40 counties will impose wheelage taxes in 2014, with total annual projected revenue of approximately $30.9 million. Today is the deadline for county boards to take action if they want to impose the tax in 2014.
The wheelage tax is tacked on to annual license tab renewals. The new law increases the previous cap of $5 per car or truck per year to $10 each year through 2017, and $20 thereafter.
Notably, Olmsted County passed a local option quarter-cent sales tax in addition to the $10 wheelage tax, and the St. Louis County board surprisingly and uncharacteristically voted against imposing the wheelage tax.
Below are the counties where the wheelage tax passed along with annual revenue projections.
Beltrami $340,000 Marshall $115,000
Benton $320,000 Martin $200,000
Brown $286,000 McLeod $357,000
Carver $630,000 Mille Lacs $284,000
Chisago $545,000 Mower $357,000
Clay $460,000 Nobles $204,820
Clearwater $97,000 Norman $76,000
Cottonwood $122,670 Olmsted $1,200,000
Dakota $3,200,000 Pennington $135,000
Dodge $195,000 Polk $304,000
Douglas $360,000 Pope $116,000
Faribault $160,000 Ramsey $3,800,000
Freeborn $290,000 Renville $175,000
Goodhue $450,000 Rice $535,000
Hennepin $8,600,000 Scott $1,000,000
Houston $198,000 Sherburne $750,000
Itasca $420,000 Stearns $1,500,000
Jackson $108,470 Waseca $181,440
Kandiyohi $402,000 Washington $1,960,000
Le Sueur $310,000 Watonwan $114,000
