Browsing: Tax Reform

A new Badger Institute and Tax Foundation report offers a menu of reforms to foster opportunity and make Wisconsin more competitive.

A guide to fair, simple, pro-growth reform

As with manufacturing property, valuations should be done by the state, with owners being able to appeal to a panel of tax experts rather than a local review board

James Madison would be dismayed by his namesake capital’s role in relinquishing local control to get federal grants

How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.

A policy brief from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.

A policy brief from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.

Many taxpayers will no longer benefit from state and local tax deduction

Broad-based Wisconsin tax reform should be the goal

Legislature should fix the complex process that benefits developers and politicians at the expense of taxpayers

Funding mechanism has become a gravy train for developers and distorts the free market, critics say

Numbers and nuggets from trends in Wisconsin — on everything from the state’s tax rankings to our workforce shortage to the growth in occupational licensing to corrections to the transportation funding dilemma to the decline of the mainstream media.

The Sheboygan Fire Department recently marked its 10th year of providing emergency medical services (EMS) to the city’s residents. But not all of the parties associated with the decision are celebrating the milestone.

Gov. Walker says he’ll decide on Opportunity Zone designations by March 21 federal deadline Editor’s note: On March 21, Gov. Scott…

Says ‘there has never been more opportune moment’ for Wisconsin tax reform.

Residents in high-tax states like ours are stung harder by cap on state/local tax deduction

Wisconsin ranks 38th in the latest state highway systems report.

Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling

Many taxpayers in the Badger State could take a hit under changes proposed in House Republican tax bill.
By Jay Miller
November 8, 2017

Institute and Tax Foundation moving forward with analysis of state tax structure and policy recommendations for 2019 budget.