Proposed State Study Could Lead to Mileage Tracking Devices in Cars
Executive Director Analiese Eicher of One Wisconsin Now said the proposal was a test to see how Republicans might vote on it.
Executive Director Analiese Eicher of One Wisconsin Now said the proposal was a test to see how Republicans might vote on it.
In this budget, the GOP protected state tax loopholes for big business benefactors, and the rest of us are the ones paying for it.
One Wisconsin Now showed that, in the four years between 2013 and 2016, Kimberly-Clark paid a grand total of $1 in state income taxes.
As research by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now has found, “Vos’ financial disclosures reveal his personal wealth...
Robin Vos is suggesting cutting funds available for priorities like education, health care, roads instead of closing a tax loophole.
SPEAKER: Like a lot of families, it seems like we’re always juggling to make it all work. When I’m not working with my husband at our automotive shop, I’m driving the kids...
CAL: Our family has farmed this farm for three generations. It’s the future for our daughter and her family and we’d like to have them have a better start than what we...
SCOTT WALKER: (Knock, knock) Hi, it’s Scott Walker. Good thing you’re filling up, because if Tony Evers wins, he’ll raise the gas tax by as much as $1 a gallon. That’s $1,200...
SCOTT WALKER: Hi, I’m Scott Walker. We’ve worked hard to help Wisconsin families make ends meet. We lowered property taxes, cut income taxes, and froze UW tuition. Now, wages are up and...
SPEAKERS: Tony Evers will raise taxes. Property. Income. Gas …. Oh no.
SCOTT WALKER: Hi, I’m Scott Walker. With all of the attack ads these days, it’s easy to forget that more people are working this year than ever before, our schools are some...
Kimberly-Clark has had $1 in Wisconsin state net tax burden the last four years available. Now Gov. Walker is calling for the passage of a giveaway.
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration plans to expand collection of taxes for online purchases by Oct. 1 as permitted by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. How it will do so — and...
The state Department of Revenue has received nearly 560,000 claims for Gov. Scott Walker’s $100 per-child tax credit. The deadline for filing a claim was 11:59 p.m. Monday. According to a posting...
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration will begin collecting online sales tax revenue Oct. 1. The collection will generate an additional $90 million in revenue over the next year, and $120 million the following...
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect online sales taxes could yield billions of dollars for state and local governments — if they decide to keep it. Rather than...
A new analysis shows Wisconsin could rake in an additional $90 million in internet sales taxes this fiscal year if lawmakers decide to start collection this fall. The U.S. Supreme Court last...
Wisconsin might start collecting sales tax for online purchases. But Gov. Scott Walker said any tax increase would be offset by tax cuts somewhere else. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
“It’s a short-term attempt at a headline,” said Joanna Beilman-Dulin, research director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
SCOTT WALKER: We’ve cut taxes to put you in charge. Now, we’re ready to keep moving forward because there’s more to be done. By the end of 2018, our cumulative tax cuts...
A Wisconsin sales tax holiday appears all but dead in the state Senate and an impasse between GOP lawmakers is putting the entire tax cut bill at risk… GOP Gov. Scott Walker...
Gov. Scott Walker reopened Thursday the possibility of raising the state’s gas tax to pay the state’s share of a proposed $1.5 trillion federal infrastructure package… “We’re willing to invest to obtain...
"It's the unfairness of the plan that is the flaw," said Scot Ross, director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
One Wisconsin Now says repealing the deduction would have “the net effect of a massive property tax increase for Wisconsin homeowners.”
A smorgasbord of tax giveaways to the wealthiest and corporations unveiled today by the GOP in D.C. eliminates a tax deduction for student loan borrowers.
Handing Gov. Scott Walker a victory as a prepares for a likely re-election bid next year, Republican leaders of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee said Wednesday they will go along with his $180...
Gov. Scott Walker is defending provisions in the state budget that would end the state’s portion of the property tax.Walker said during an interview the “Jerry Bader Show on WTAQ radio in...
Gov. Scott Walker, in another sign of escalating tension with fellow Republicans who control the Legislature, vowed Monday to take the unprecedented step of vetoing the entire $76 billion state budget if...
Gov. Scott Walker is making an aggressive push to eliminate the state’s portion of property tax bills in the 2017-19 state budget, but his proposal is getting resistance from forestry groups across...
Gov. Scott Walker has rejected the heart of a GOP roads plan, saying it amounted to a net tax increase on fuel of more than $400 million over two years. Assembly Republicans...
After rejecting Gov. Scott Walker’s transportation budget, state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, and Assembly Republicans put forward a new plan to fund state transportation last Thursday. It includes applying sales tax to...
Assembly Republicans’ plan to pay for Wisconsin roads by applying the sales tax to gas has run into a roadblock in Gov. Scott Walker. The GOP governor and Assembly Republicans have been...
Wisconsin would hike taxes on gasoline and slash income taxes and borrowing for roads, under a proposal being discussed privately by top Assembly Republicans. The sweeping plan by Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield)...
An Assembly Republican alternative to Gov. Scott Walker’s funding plan for roads may include a new sales tax on gasoline along with cuts to income taxes as part of an overreaching tax...
It won’t be long before people figure out they’re scheming to tilt the system even more in favor of the wealthiest and big corporations.
Gov. Scott Walker remains opposed to raising the gas tax, but he’s not shutting the door on higher vehicle registration fees. Walker tells WKOW-TV in an interview Thursday that “there might be...
State Sen. Duey Stroebel is pushing a property tax increase on communities that approve referenda to support their local public schools.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Thursday slammed Gov. Scott Walker for changing his position on a possible gas tax increase in the state budget and called the transportation secretary’s position on the...
Meanwhile, unemployed homeowners, state park enthusiasts, and manufacturers who pay taxes in other states would pay higher taxes and fees. Walker’s budget proposal for the two years starting July 1 cuts taxes...
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to reduce the lowest income tax rate would save 70 percent of tax filers an average of $44 this year, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The impact...
Gov. Scott Walker is reversing course on a key tax credit for the working poor, proposing to raise incomes for more than 130,000 state families by returning the more than $20 million...
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos conceded Wednesday that gas taxes “probably” aren’t going to be increased to pay for road improvements, given Gov. Scott Walker’s opposition to that approach… The biggest budget...
"WMC is attacking a Democrat for supporting the same policy that they do, and that his opponent does," said Scot Ross of liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
A Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin is proposing the state raise its gasoline tax or levy tolls on state highways to avoid a $940 million transportation revenue gap over the next two years,...
“Walker’s slashed public education and higher education funds… to pay for these trickle down policies,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill on Nov. 30 rebating millions of dollars in excess Lambeau Field stadium tax revenue to Brown County communities. Green Bay’s finance committee will resume a discussion...
Republicans have repeatedly cut general fund support to K-12 schools and the UW System to pay for tax breaks disproportionately benefiting the wealthy and corporations.
As a result, Wisconsin’s high property tax essentially wipes out any savings most taxpayers would see due to the lower income, sales and excise taxes compared to Minnesota. In fact, the only...