Browsing: Taxes

Failure to do so will result in taxpayers providing a $700 million interest-free loan to the government in both 2021 and 2022

Tax relief in 2021-’23 budget will provide substantial relief to individuals, families and businesses

Changes to TPP, UI, and tax brackets are all being debated

A menu of pro-growth tax reform options from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.

An unnecessary second stimulus is an invitation for state, county and local officials to act irresponsibly with our tax money

Federal dollars drove personal, small bankruptcies down, but Chapter 11s were flat and could spike

Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due

Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector
By Angela Rachidi
March 16, 2021

Badger Institute Public Affairs Associate David Fladeboe submitted written testimony in favor of 2021 AB 149 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Constitution and Ethics on March 10, 2021.

2021 AB 149 would increase the Legislature’s role in approving the expenditure of federal funds related to COVID-19.

Nearly 90,000 Wisconsin small businesses that have taken out loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will face hundreds of millions of dollars in state income tax liability on those loans this spring, despite the loans being tax-free at the federal level.

The policy decisions state policymakers make in the months ahead will have far-reaching implications for how quickly jobs and wages are restored in Wisconsin.

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

Preferential contracts undermine the truly disadvantaged, and programs are prone to fraud

Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline

Wisconsin would be worse off had responsible budgeting not produced healthy surplus, rainy day fund
By David Fladeboe
April 6, 2020

The Legislature should not delegate taxing responsibility and authority to an industry association

Wisconsin’s prison system will require hundreds of millions of dollars for new construction, operating costs just to keep up with population growth

The Democratic Party’s track record and the event’s unknown price tag suggest taxpayers may be on the hook for Milwaukee’s July convention

The bulk of the wealth of the very rich is in business assets, which benefit the economy

Milwaukee’s first socialist mayor blamed his 1912 re-election loss on his call to tax the assets of the rich