Browsing: Taxes

There are 541 days until the next Legislature’s sworn in, and there’s plenty of unfinished business

Wisconsin’s expanded retirement income exclusion will undermine the tax code’s neutrality and shift burdens onto working families over time.

Progressives object because proposed Wisconsin tax relief goes to people they envy.

Legislative Republicans’ proposed tax measure “is a relatively well-structured way to provide relief for lower- and middle-income Wisconsinites,” said Katherine Loughead.

President Trump’s executive order to halt federal funding for public broadcasting will save taxpayers nearly $8.5 million annually in reduced federal outlays to public television and radio networks in Wisconsin alone.

Taxes in the Badger State are simply too high and too uncompetitive — which is why Wisconsin must consider a low, flat-rate individual income tax.

Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

A single-rate tax reform would change Wisconsin’s tax picture from a grave liability to an advantage.

Providing free breakfast and lunch for all Wisconsin schoolchildren will burden taxpayers with the cost of assisting households that likely do not need the benefits.

The residents of Milwaukee, Dane and Winnebago counties paid the highest effective property tax rates in Wisconsin last year, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.

In the 12 years leading up to Act 10, school levies across Wisconsin rose 72%, compared to 31% in the dozen years after that up to and including 2024.

A reversal by the State Historic Preservation Review Board on the significance of the 35-year-old “postmodern” 100 East building in downtown Milwaukee could mean tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks if the building is fully renovated.

In the 2023-24 school year, MPS schools called police 1,245 times for help with allegations of everything from armed robbery to sexual assault to felony theft.

MPS may regret its ongoing resistance to the state’s resource officer requirement the next time it comes to the Legislature looking for tax money.

Between 2021 and 2022 Wisconsin gained a net total of 2,083 individual new residents from Minnesota.

‘It’s tough enough to run a small business in Minnesota,’ but rates and regulations grew harsher under Walz, starting with…

How does Wisconsin’s spending compare to other states? It depends which ones you’re looking at and what sort of spending counts.

How do other states without an income tax fund essential services? Under what circumstances would this be feasible in Wisconsin?

People are leaving Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa and, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation, the loss of state revenue and the population migration are closely tied to punitive tax structures in those states.

Housing market and financing shouldn’t be its concern Key members of the Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission seem to think their…