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Article: Sales tax link to property tax relief questioned
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- June 16, 2002
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Capitol Week
Sales tax link to property tax relief questioned
By AMY RINARD of the Journal Sentinel staff
Sunday, June 16, 2002
A county's decision to enact a local sales tax is usually preceded
by controversy and predicated on promises of substantial property tax
relief.
A new analysis by the tax watchdog group Wisconsin Taxpayers
Alliance shows in many cases the promises may not have been kept --
or at least not in the way most taxpayers expect.
Based on sophisticated economic models done for each of the 48
counties that had a sales tax before 1996, the analysis tracked the
first seven years of a county's sales tax revenue, property tax
levies and projections of what the levies would have ...