Author: Johnni Lopez

Offshores are jurisdictions where tax benefits and advantages are provided to foreign companies and individuals. These jurisdictions are often islands, small countries, or special administrative zones. Their legislation typically allows companies to register assets and conduct business with minimal tax obligations. For entrepreneurs, offshore countries can be a way to manage their finances with minimal expenses. Offshore territories will always retain relevance Registering a business in offshore jurisdictions offers numerous advantages, including, first and foremost, minimal taxes or even complete tax exemption. For example, in Caribbean offshore zones, companies do not pay corporate income tax, dividends, or interest. Registering companies…

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“For more than 40 years, ICWA has been an important way for America to affirm that Native families, culture, and sovereignty matter,” Ellison said in a press release about the brief.Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and 23 other state attorneys general urged the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief to reject a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, which protects the sovereignty of Native American children, their families and tribal communities. The case, Haaland v. Brackeen, was brought in 2017 by a white Texas couple, who sued in a federal district court in Texas after the Navajo Nation…

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Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen speaks as supporters cheer behind him at an Apple Valley rally in May. Photo by Nicole Neri/minnesotadigest.com.Republican nominee for governor Scott Jensen is set to appear Tuesday at a Republican Jewish Coalition event.  He may want to clarify to the group some remarks he made in April in which he off-handedly compared recent public health policies to Hitler’s rise.  Jensen was speaking to a group called MaskOffMN, which calls the government’s response to COVID-19 “a fraud.” The group also alleges the COVID-19 vaccines are not proven safe nor effective and warns that “A Peacetime Emergency…

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Farm bills traditionally have not included much for livestock producers, but some agriculture experts expect that to change this year, in response to the turmoil the sector faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Getty Images. WASHINGTON — Over the course of the next year, lawmakers on the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture committees will draft a new federal farm bill that will shape food, farm, conservation and nutrition programs across the country for the next five years. The omnibus law that began 90 years ago as crop supports now has an impact far beyond the farm, with programs to create…

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Sens Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer, President Joe Biden, and Reps. Jim Clyburn, Frank Pallone and Kathy Castor at a signing event. White House screenshot. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed his party’s signature climate, health care and tax package into law Tuesday, capping off more than a year of tumultuous negotiations that saw his original proposal to Congress slimmed down considerably. Flanked by a handful of Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, Biden sharply contrasted his outlook for the country with that of Republicans, who unanimously…

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Photo by Tony Webster/Minnesota Reformer. In 2021, Minnesota law enforcement agencies took nearly $11 million in cash, vehicles and other property from people who, in many cases, were never convicted or even charged with a crime. That figure comes from the latest annual report on asset forfeiture from the office of the state auditor. Forfeiture allows law enforcement agencies to seize and keep the assets of people suspected of criminal activity. Those assets are then divvied up between the police departments and prosecutors’ offices involved with the forfeiture. “County attorneys do not need to charge or convict the property owner…

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Attorney General Keith Ellison was among the 20 attorneys general who filed a brief opposing Texas. Official photo. WASHINGTON — Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia — including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison — filed a brief in federal court on Tuesday, challenging Texas’ assertion that states shouldn’t have to comply with a federal law that protects doctors who end a pregnancy to save the patient’s life.  The brief argues the judge in the case shouldn’t grant Texas’ request for preliminary injunctive relief that would stop the federal government from enforcing the law, or a pre-judgment…

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Gus Whatcott, who lives in St, Louis Park, regularly practices glassblowing at Legacy Glassworks. Photo by Baylor Spears/Minnesota Reformer.Now that Minnesota has legalized hemp-derived THC products as of July 1, proponents of full legalization are activating a new resource in the political battle over the green plant’s future: customers.  Josh Wilken-Simon, policy director of Minnesotans for Responsible Marijuana Regulation, said they estimate 700,000 Minnesotans are cannabis consumers. “Many of these folks aren’t politically active and so really what we want to do is identify these individuals and get them to the polls and try to drive voter turnout.” Cannabis legalization…

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Photo courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair. A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by gun rights activists challenging the Minnesota State Fair’s ban on guns, ruling the ban does not violate the activists’ Second Amendment rights. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus and pair of gun rights activists — the Rev. Tim Christopher and Sarah Cade Hauptman — filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the State Agricultural Society, which runs the fair. They argued the gun ban was illegal because of the Second Amendment and a state law that prohibits local jurisdictions from restricting firearms. The fairgrounds are…

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DOC ordered 18 inmates who had been on medical release to return to prison on Aug. 15, including a woman who was released in 2021 because she was pregnant. Getty Images.Two inmates within the Minnesota correctional system filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state’s Department of Corrections, seeking to stop the agency from ordering 18 inmates back into prison.  During the pandemic, the DOC released 158 inmates because of their susceptibility to COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions, through a conditional medical release program, which is typically used for inmates who are gravely ill or at the end of their…

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