Wisconsin Property Tax Burden Still Among Nation’s Highest
Feb. 19, 2018
Despite many shifts in Wisconsin’s property tax since 1946, the state’s rank among the states remained consistently in the top 20.
Despite many shifts in Wisconsin’s property tax since 1946, the state’s rank among the states remained consistently in the top 20.
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Interest groups spent about $2.7 million more to lobby the Capitol in the last half of 2017 as the state budget dragged on, compared with the same period in 2015, a WisPolitics.com review shows.
More than half of the appointees on the state Elections and Ethics commissions continued to make political donations to state candidates and groups even after joining the bodies, according to a WisPolitics.com check of campaign finance reports.
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At nearly $11 billion, the property tax is not only the largest state-local tax but also second-largest for many Wisconsin taxpayers after the federal income tax.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
One of the largest declines in Wisconsin state tax collections has gone largely unnoticed. UI tax collections declined 18.6% in 2017 to $751.3 million.
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