Commissioner Myron Frans has nearly three decades of tax law expertise as well as strong business and managerial experience.   As Commissioner of Revenue, he supports Governor Dayton’s goal of a fair and equitable tax system.

Prior to his appointment, Frans served as president of Leeds Precision Instruments, a manufacturing and distributing company in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Under his leadership, Leeds Forensic Systems, a subsidiary of Leeds Precision, earned the Governor’s International Trade Award in 2010 for success in building global markets.

 

Frans has been a tax attorney in private practice for 27 years, most recently as a senior tax partner at the law firm of Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis.  Before joining Faegre & Benson, he was a tax partner at Gray Plant Mooty Mooty & Bennett, also in Minneapolis. 

 

Frans began his tax practice in 1983 with the firm of Miller & Chevalier, in Washington, DC.  He has been active in the American Bar Association, the Minnesota Bar Association, where he served on the governing Tax Council for a number of years, and the Hennepin Bar Association, where he served on the ethics committee.