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Updated: 2:31 PM Nov 30, 2006
Doyle Unsupportive Of Tax Exemption Proposal
The proposal would eliminate more than three billion in sales tax exemptions and use the extra money to remove property taxes to finance public schools.
Posted: 2:03 PM Nov 30, 2006 |
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Governor Jim Doyle says he does not support removing sales tax exemptions as a way to lower property taxes.
Doyle says doing that -- as one state senator proposes -- would raise taxes on individuals and likely wouldn't result in lower property taxes.
A proposal is being floated by Democratic state Senator Jon Erpenbach of Middleton. The proposal would do away with more than three billion dollars in sales tax exemptions -- and use that extra revenue to remove property taxes as a way to finance public schools.
Doyle says removing exemptions would hurt individuals and not the businesses that currently aren't required to collect them. He says he is not in favor of raising taxes on individuals.
Doyle says passing a bill like Erpenbach's will be hard.
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