Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday that he will ask the Legislature to approve allowing counties and most large cities be able to ask voters to raise the sales tax to pay for local services, like police and fire protection and road repairs.

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate plans to propose Friday moving to a 3.25% flat income tax rate, a roughly $5 billion proposal that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vowed to block.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is promising to veto any flat income tax cut plan passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, favoring instead his proposal to reduce taxes for the middle class by 10%.

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Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Friday he wants to cut taxes by "significantly" more than $3.4 billion in the next state budget, while remaining coy about how he wants to address major issues such as funding for schools and local governments.

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Gov. Tony Evers proposed a $600 million annual tax cut on Tuesday — an election year proposal that's all but certain to be summarily rejected by the Republican-controlled Legislature.

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Wisconsin Republicans wrapped up revisions on the 2021-23 state budget Thursday night by leaning on unprecedented revenue projections to build a roughly $3.3 billion tax cut into the spending plan.

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Wisconsin's sate and local tax burden dropped below the national average and taxes as a share of income in 2020 reached its lowest level in at least half a century, a report released Tuesday from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum showed.

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Wisconsin tax collections came in more than $818 million above projections made last summer, an increase reported Thursday that will fuel the push to make an election year tax cut.

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A new report shows that taxes paid by Wisconsin residents as a share of personal income have fallen by more than two percentage points in the past 20 years.

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A new report shows the state collected slightly more in taxes during the last fiscal year than the previous year.

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