Published: February 26, 2010
Tags: Brett Favre, flat tax, income tax, Pommer, Russ Feingold, tax, Terrence Wall, Tommy Thompson, U.S. Senate
By Matt Pommer
Republican U.S. senatorial candidate Terrence Wall says he favors a flat-rate federal income tax system to make it easier for Americans.
His comments came in a newspaper story in which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel put his net worth between $58 million and $130 million, including income last year between $2.3 million and $14.2 million.
Wall [...]
Published: February 5, 2010
Tags: amendment, democrat, Gov. Jim Doyle, property tax, Republican, Scott Walker, tax, Wisconsin Constitution
By Matt Pommer
Gov. Jim Doyle wants a constitutional amendment to give the Legislature more freedom on taxes, especially the property tax.
The idea has the potential to refocus the tax debate during the 2010 election campaign and open the door to a future Legislature exempting a portion of a home’s value from the property tax. In [...]
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Bosman, commuter rail, Doyle, KRM, Larson, Lehman, referendum, RTA, tax, Turner
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Without successful bus systems in southeast Wisconsin, there can be no Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line.
Without a bill giving local governments in southeast Wisconsin a menu of options for raising transit money, the bus systems will struggle to succeed.
Wisconsin lawmakers on Tuesday introduced that bill and threw a lifeline to the KRM project. If [...]
By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor leaders are pushing hard on President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to drop a proposed new tax on high-value health insurance plans, warning of political consequences.
The White House has indicated the tax may change so it hits fewer workers — but it’s not going away.
A Monday evening [...]
Published: January 5, 2010
Tags: grant, Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail, Mayo, Southeastern Regional Transit Authority, Southeastern Wisconsin Coalition for Transit, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, state Legislature, tax, Thomas, Transit Now, Yunker
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
Timing and money are confusing the board in charge of building the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail.
For the project to begin, the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority needs the state to approve new legislation and the federal government to approve grants for commuter rail construction. Without a state law letting local governments create new taxes to [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court decision that Xerox Corp. must pay property taxes on some office equipment leased to customers.
Xerox argued that stand-alone devices that can print, copy, fax and scan should be considered computers and therefore exempted from property taxes under state law.
A state appeals [...]
Seven companies that renovated or built in Milwaukee’s central city received $12 million in tax credits from the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee.
The money comes from a federal program that gives tax incentives to companies in certain low-income areas. The seven company’s projects in Milwaukee’s central city amounted to $43 million in construction [...]
Published: December 15, 2009
Tags: car rental, commuter rail, Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line, KRM, Larson, Mitchell, Ostby, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority, tax, Wisconsin Car Rental Alliance
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
Regional planners in southeast Wisconsin can place an $18 tax on car rentals to pay for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line.
But authority is not enough to justify a tax that could further damage an already beleaguered industry, according to tax opponents.
“Car-rental business is down 30 percent compared to the same time a year [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin legislators say Minnesota officials have rejected a plan to continue tax reciprocity.
Wisconsin and Minnesota had an agreement that allowed taxpayers who live in one state but work in the other to file one income tax return. The two states then reimbursed each other.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty ended the deal this [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — If Wisconsin and Minnesota lawmakers can reach agreement on a tax reciprocity dispute lawmakers in Wisconsin may call a special session to enact the deal.
A spokeswoman for Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker said talks are ongoing but Decker is committed to calling the Senate into session if a deal can [...]
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