Minnesota Department of Revenue electronically filed. Minnesota Department of Revenue The Minnesota Department of Revenue (DOR) is a department of the State of Minnesota in the United States. The department manages and enforces the reporting, payment, and receipt of state taxes. As of 2017, the Minnesota Department of Revenue administered more than 30 taxes totaling almost $21 billion per year. With more than one thousand employees, the agency is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's capital city. In 2017 Minnesota DOR processed half a million paper individual tax returns, which is about 15% of all individual tax returns in the state. The other
2005 Minnesota state government shutdown 2005 Minnesota state government shutdown The 2005 Minnesota state government shutdown was a government shutdown affecting the U.S. state of Minnesota, the first in the history of the state. The shutdown was the result of a fiscal dispute between the Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty and House majority, and the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) majority in the state Senate, that was not resolved by the constitutional deadline on June 30. The Republicans and the DFL disagreed over how much would be spent on state healthcare programs and public schools, and what sources of revenue would be used for this funding. During the