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Individuals who submit the Wisconsin earned income credit on their 2020 state income tax return submission can expect refund delays, yet possibly larger refunds. These delays are good news for taxpayers who may get a larger credit than expected due to an adjustment in how the credit is calculated on federal and state taxes, according to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. To help offset losses many people experienced from missed income in 2020 due to the pandemic, the IRS and Wisconsin Departm...

The Mini-Midterms: Five Takeaways from Six Decades of House Special Elections A Commentary By Kyle Kondik Thursday, April 15, 2021 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — There have been nearly 300 U.S. House special elections since the mid-1950s. — These elections more often flipped against the party that holds the White House — just like what often happens to the president’s party in midterm House elections — but the president’s party has scored some noteworthy wins, too, which can cloud...

Evers budget and Republican proposals are miles apart. A compromise won’t be easy. //end headline wrapper ?> Gov. Tony Evers. File photo by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The process of creating a state budget to fund the next two years is underway with a supposed July 1 deadline in state law. It’s often said that budgets are moral documents that lay bare the priorities of the parties crafting them. In Wisconsin, it’s not as simple as Republicans wanting to cu...

Wisconsin Examiner To cobble together a bipartisan budget, both sides need wins Democratic donkey and Republican elephant butting heads. Vector illustration. The process of creating a state budget to fund the next two years is underway with a supposed July 1 deadline in state law. It’s often said that budgets are moral documents that lay bare the priorities of the parties crafting them. In Wisconsin, it’s not as simple as Republicans wanting to cut taxes and Democrats wanting to t...

The Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison. (Photo via Vijay Kumar Koulampet/Wikipedia Commons) MADISON, Wis. (CN) — A federal judge in Madison ruled on Friday that reservation lands held by four Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin cannot be taxed by the state if they have been under Indian ownership since being allotted by the federal government. In November 2018, the plaintiff tribes sued former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, then-Wisconsin Secretary of Revenue Richard Chandler and...

Gov. Evers Announces More Than $46 Million in Support to Small Businesses Estimated 9,300 small businesses to receive $5,000 grants through ‘We’re All In’ program By Gov. Tony Evers - Apr 6th, 2021 10:03 am MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and the Department of Revenue (DOR), today announced more than $46 million to support an estimated 9,300 small businesses across Wisconsin which will r...

The Department of Revenue said it recently returned about $8.2 million in unclaimed property to its rightful owners.

 

Dems: It killed bipartisanship As it became evident that Republicans in the Legislature planned to rush through passage of Act 10, Democratic lawmakers, who held minorities in the Assembly and Senate, knew they had to get creative. Their radical solution: Flee the state. Fourteen Democratic state senators, including then-Minority Leader Mark Miller, drove across the state line to Illinois in an effort to block the vote while putting them beyond the reach of Wisconsin law enforcement, who might ...

Democrats tried to narrow the tax break on expenses paid for with federal relief money.