Represented by Fredrikson’s Tax Disputes and Litigation attorneys in the Minnesota Tax Court, Alaska Airlines challenged Minnesota’s use of Minnesota receipts when calculating the carrier’s Minnesota Franchise Tax Minimum Fee. This tax is imposed on taxpayers exercising a corporate franchise in the state and calculated based on the taxpayer’s total Minnesota property, payrolls and “sales or receipts.”

Fredrikson’s government relations group gained bipartisan support from the Minnesota legislators in helping the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys secure significant additional funding to expand its innovative community engagement programs.

Fredrikson attorneys persuaded the Minnesota Supreme Court that the Perham Hospital District’s three clinics should be exempt from property tax because they were operated to improve and run Perham Hospital.

In the 1950s and 1960s, St. Paul’s Rondo Neighborhood was devastated by the construction of the I-94 Highway. More than 700 homes and 300 businesses and civic organizations in this historically vibrant African American cultural community were taken with very little compensation. After many years in the making, ReConnect Rondo is now leading the effort to revitalize Rondo with a community land bridge over I-94 that reconnects historic Rondo and reignites an African American cultural enterprise district in St. Paul.

Bushel provides software technology solutions for farmers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies. Represented by Fredrikson, Bushel recently closed an oversubscribed $26 million funding round led by The Banc Funds Company with further support from new and existing investors.