The taxes imposed under section 298.24 shall be in addition to the occupation tax imposed upon the business of mining and producing iron ore. Except as herein otherwise provided, such taxes shall be in lieu of all other taxes upon taconite, iron sulphides, direct reduced ore, and other iron-bearing material or the lands in which they are contained, or upon the mining or quarrying thereof, or the production of concentrate or direct reduced ore therefrom, or upon the concentrate or direct reduced ore produced, or upon the machinery, equipment, tools, supplies and buildings used in such mining, quarrying or production, or upon the lands occupied by, or used in connection with, such mining, quarrying or production facilities. If electric or steam power for the mining, transportation or concentration of taconite, concentrates, direct reduced ore, or other iron-bearing material produced therefrom is generated in plants principally devoted to the generation of power for such purposes, the plants in which such power is generated and all machinery, equipment, tools, supplies, transmission and distribution lines used in the generation and distribution of such power, shall not be considered to be machinery, equipment, tools, supplies and buildings used in the mining, quarrying, or production of taconite, taconite concentrates or direct reduced ore within the meaning of this section, and shall be subject to general property taxation. Nothing in this section prevents the assessment and taxation under the general property tax law of:
(1) the surface of reserve land containing taconite or other iron-bearing material and not occupied by such facilities or used in connection with them at the value of the land without regard to the taconite, iron sulphides, or other iron-bearing materials in the land;
(2) merchantable iron ore or other minerals, or iron-bearing materials other than taconite or iron sulphides in the lands;
(3) facilities used in producing sulphur or sulphur products from iron sulphide concentrates, or in refining sulphur products; or
(4) any property used for residential or townsite purposes, including utility services to that property.
This section does not provide an exemption from general property taxation for ore docks even if located at the site of a taconite production facility.
1941 c 375 s 3; 1947 c 93 s 3; 1955 c 729 s 1; 1957 c 363 s 1; 1961 c 450 s 1; Ex1971 c 31 art 30 s 2; 1977 c 423 art 10 s 13; 1987 c 268 art 9 s 38; 1995 c 264 art 7 s 4; 2008 c 154 art 8 s 6; 2008 c 366 art 10 s 7
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 296 - 299 — Excise And Sales Taxes
Section 298.001 — Definitions.
Section 298.01 — Mining Or Producing Ores.
Section 298.015 — Net Proceeds Tax On Mining.
Section 298.016 — Gross Proceeds.
Section 298.018 — Distribution Of Proceeds.
Section 298.16 — Taxes To Be Credited To General Fund.
Section 298.17 — Occupation Taxes To Be Apportioned.
Section 298.18 — Taxes To Go To General Fund If Section 298.17 Invalid.
Section 298.22 — Iron Range Resources And Rehabilitation.
Section 298.221 — Receipts From Contracts; Appropriation.
Section 298.2211 — Financing Activities.
Section 298.2212 — Investment Of Funds.
Section 298.2214 — Iron Range Higher Education.
Section 298.2215 — County Scholarship Program.
Section 298.223 — Taconite Area Environmental Protection Fund.
Section 298.224 — Investment Of Funds; Income.
Section 298.225 — Appropriation.
Section 298.227 — Taconite Economic Development Fund.
Section 298.24 — Tax On Taconite And Iron Sulphides.
Section 298.25 — Taxes Additional To Occupation Tax; In Lieu Of Other Taxes.
Section 298.26 — Tax On Unmined Taconite And Iron Sulphides.
Section 298.27 — Collection And Payment Of Tax.
Section 298.28 — Division And Distribution Of Proceeds.
Section 298.282 — Distribution Of Taconite Municipal Aid Account; Taconite Municipal Aid; Payment.
Section 298.283 — Change Of Status Of Municipality; Date For Determining Status.
Section 298.285 — State Aid Amount; Appropriation.
Section 298.293 — Expending Funds.
Section 298.294 — Investment Of Fund.
Section 298.296 — Operation Of Fund.
Section 298.2961 — Producer Grants.
Section 298.297 — Advisory Committees.
Section 298.31 — [Private, 1945 c 283 s 1]
Section 298.34 — Semitaconite, Taxation, Definitions.
Section 298.35 — Imposition Of Tax; Amount.
Section 298.36 — Nature Of Tax.
Section 298.37 — Assessment At Local Tax Rate.
Section 298.38 — Payment And Collection.
Section 298.39 — Distribution Of Proceeds.
Section 298.391 — Agglomerating Facilities Definitions.
Section 298.392 — Qualification Of Agglomerating Facilities; Procedure And Order.
Section 298.393 — Imposition Of Tax; Amount.
Section 298.394 — Nature Of Tax.
Section 298.395 — Payment And Collection.
Section 298.396 — Distribution Of Proceeds.
Section 298.405 — Iron Ore Bearing Material Other Than Taconite And Semitaconite; Taxation.
Section 298.46 — Exploratory Drilling For Iron Ore.
Section 298.47 — Notification Of Commissioner Of Revenue Of Unmined Iron Ore.
Section 298.48 — Mineral Rights; Exploration Data; Filing Requirements; Penalties.
Section 298.75 — Aggregate Material Removal; Production Tax.