State lawmakers nearly two years ago passed legislation lifting a roughly $75 million-a-year tax burden from construction equipment and other so-called personal property.

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On Jan. 1, 2018, the Wisconsin Legislature eliminated the personal property tax on machinery, tools and patterns.

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Barring any big changes, the state budget headed next week to the Legislature would give contractors some long-sought tax relief. The $76 billion, two-year spending plan approved Wednesday by lawmakers on a powerful-budget writing committee would exempt construction companies from ...

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Construction groups are lining up behind a bill meant to make it easier for contractors to know when sales and use taxes are owed on materials bought for construction projects.

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Imagine purchasing a new lawn tractor as a homeowner. Upon buying it, you’d expect to pay the state sales tax according to the price — or value — of that purchase.

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More than 30 trade associations and businesses are banding together to end Wisconsin's personal property tax.

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Wisconsin's chamber of commerce is backing a Republican plan in the state Legislature to repeal the personal property tax on business equipment.

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Half of the lawmakers who have been studying the state’s personal-property tax are in favor of repeal.

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Attempts to gradually reduce Wisconsin’s personal-property tax , a tax lawyer warned Wednesday, could run aground on the state constitution’s “uniformity clause.”

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More than 170 years of paying personal-property taxes has lulled Wisconsin’s construction industry into a state of lethargy.

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