Lawmakers propose studying tax deal with Minn.

ABC Supply owner, richest woman in the state, owed no 2010 state taxes

Published: May 31, 2012
Tags: ABC Supply, Diane Hendricks, income tax, Scott Walker

A Beloit billionaire who is Gov. Scott Walker’s largest campaign donor owed no Wisconsin taxes in 2010 because of a change in her corporation’s structure.

Public works projects sacrificed as revenues shrink (UPDATE)

Published: September 27, 2011
Tags: income tax, National League of Cities, property tax, schools

By Daniel Wagner AP Business Writer Washington — More than half of U.S. cities have reduced staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of Cities that catalogs the vast damage from shrunken property- and income-tax revenue. Cities are struggling from the same problems that have [...]

A chance to help the less fortunate

Published: August 12, 2011
Tags: income tax, Pommer, Scott Walker

By Matt Pommer Republican recall candidates repeatedly touted the newly passed 2011-13 state budget, estimating the state would have a $300 million balance available to spend in two years. Surplus estimates can erode quickly if there is a double-dip recession. But for debate’s sake, Gov. Scott Walker seems to have at least two major ways [...]

Gov. wants to lower income taxes

Published: January 12, 2011
Tags: income tax, jobs, Scott Walker

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to lower personal and corporate income taxes in his first term, but it won’t happen in his first two-year budget. Walker must balance a $3 billion shortfall in that budget he likely will release in February. Walker said Wednesday that unlike Illinois, which is [...]

Longer school year idea doomed from the start

Published: October 8, 2010
Tags: academic calendar, furlough days, income tax, Legislature, Obama, school year, Tea Party, University of Wisconsin
Comments: 3

By Matt Pommer President Barack Obama says America must improve its education system to retain its world economic leadership. Among the ideas he floated in a September talk was extending the school year. Sound familiar? It should because former Gov. Tommy Thompson sounded the same theme some 18 years ago. Better education would help Wisconsin [...]

Walker proposes freezing corporate income tax

Published: October 7, 2010
Tags: income tax, jobs, Mike Tate, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker wants to freeze corporate income tax for two years for companies that relocate to Wisconsin. Walker announced the plan, but not how much it would cost, on Thursday. According to liberal group One Wisconsin Now, doing that would be either a huge tax giveaway or too [...]

State lags with vehicle insurance law

Published: April 23, 2010
Tags: government employees, health care, health reform, income tax, Medicaid, Medicare, Pommer, socialism, vehicle liability insurance, veterans’ benefits

By Matt Pommer Are you angry about the future requirement that everyone have health insurance? How about the fact that Wisconsin is about to require residents to carry liability insurance on the vehicles they own? Like the controversial health care bill, the vehicle insurance law — which takes effect June 1 — cuts into your [...]

Study of Wisconsin, Minnesota tax deal proposed

Published: April 13, 2010
Tags: income tax, reciprocity, Senate, taxes

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Resuming a tax reciprocity agreement with neighboring Minnesota would be studied under a bill before the Wisconsin state Senate. Wisconsin and Minnesota had an agreement that allowed taxpayers who work in the other state to file one income tax return. The two states then reimbursed each other. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty [...]

Be prepared for sales tax increase

Published: April 2, 2010
Tags: budget, income tax, Pommer, property tax, recession, sales tax, unemployment, Wisconsin Way

By Matt Pommer Wisconsin’s economic downturn in the early 1980s was far worse than the current recession if seasonally adjusted unemployment numbers are the measuring stick. The state experienced 13 straight months of double digit unemployment in the early 1980s. Unemployment has not topped 10 percent in the present downturn. But the economic crunch is [...]