(a) The commissioner of revenue shall determine a state aid amount equal to a tax of 33 cents per taxable ton of iron ore concentrates for production year 2001 and 22 cents per taxable ton of iron ore concentrates for production years 2002 and thereafter, except as provided in paragraph (b).

Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 298.285

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of revenue of the state of Minnesota, except that when used in sections 298. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
  • Other iron-bearing material: means the material described in section 298. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
  • state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
  • Tax: means any fee, charge, exaction, or assessment imposed by a governmental entity on an individual, person, entity, transaction, good, service, or other thing. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44

(b) Other iron-bearing material, as defined in section 298.001, subdivision 9, must not be included in the determination of state aid amounts under paragraph (a) until distribution year 2024.

(c) There is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner an amount equal to the state aid determined under this section. The appropriation must be distributed under section 298.28, as if the aid were production tax revenues.