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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is going to decide what “directly reducing the property tax levy” actually means.

By Rob Sussman Apr 27, 2021 4:58 PM GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Brown County’s sales tax, which has been used to fund projects like the Resch Expo, will be under the microscope of the state Supreme Court this year. The court has agreed to hear the legal challenge against the tax brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. That group argues that the sales tax is being used illegally as sales tax dollars can only be used to reduce the property tax levy. “Unfortunately Brown County is not using its sales tax to directly reduce the property tax levy,” said Deputy Counsel An...

Brown County wants to use sales tax to fund capital projects, not property tax reduction The News: The Wisconsin Supreme Courtgranted a request from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals to review a lawsuit in which WILL claims, on behalf of the Brown County Taxpayers Association (BCTA), that Brown County’s sales tax is illegal. State law is clear that a county sales tax must be used for the purpose of direct property tax reduction – not to fund the capital projects that Brown County has proposed. The Quotes: WILL Deputy Counsel, Anthony LoCoco, said, “Brown County’s desire to use a sales t...

Brian McGrath. The lawyers had filed a brief demanding that the Wisconsin Elections Commission be ordered to purge the voter rolls of addresses that were allegedly out of date.  Esenberg, the director of WILL, wanted to remove as many as 188,000 people from the voting rolls whose addresses might be out of date, based on an analysis by the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), a multi-state consortium created to improve the accuracy of voter registration systems. ERIC uses data from the state Division of Motor Vehicles, Social Security and the U.S. Postal Service to see w...

MADISON - A conservative legal group told the head of the state prison system Thursday that his agency risked a lawsuit if it did not alter its COVID-19 policies and allow ministers to visit prisoners in person. In a letter, the leaders of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty told Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr he needed to provide Catholic inmates the opportunity to make confessions to priests in person as Easter approaches. Members of other denominations deserve similar opportunities to meet with faith leaders, they argued. The Department of Corrections in March 2020 barred visits ...