Tag: wheel tax

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is reintroducing his push for a $60 wheel tax and metered parking at the lakefront to expand county revenues. I may have more on that later. But one of the reasons he wants to expand county revenues is to pay for the opioid epidemic. User…

As we discussed earlier this week, the GOP legislators in Madison are tinkering with the wheel tax…the one mechanism that local governments still have access to raise funds for infrastructure repairs and maintenance. Well the latest from under the dome says that existing wheel taxes are ok and can continue…

After capping what municipalities, counties, and school districts can levy for local property taxes…the state legislature has been working to limit the referendums that local government can run to get voter permission to exceed those caps. And that has essentially left one avenue of additional revenues left to local governments…