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Walker Proposal: Tax Relief, Nothing for Kids
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 11, 2013
Gov. Scott Walker called a special legislative session Thursday to use a projected $100 million surplus to push down property taxes on the typical home by 0.4% more than expected this year.
The two-year proposal would lower the December tax bill on the median-valued home by an additional $13 over current estimates, to $2,925. Next year, taxes under Walker’s plan would rise modestly so that over two years they would be an estimated $11 more than they are now on the typical home.
Because the GOP school aid proposal would not provide a corresponding increase in revenue caps, the proposal, if adopted, would provide relief to local property taxpayers but nothing new to spend on educating Wisconsin school children.
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