Milwaukee’s school board has advanced a pioneering resolution
that could lead to all Wisconsin’s school districts
demanding meaningful state tax disclosure legislation.
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MPS Board President Peter
Blewett |
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On Aug. 9, 2007, the Legislation, Rules and Policies Committee
of the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Board voted 5-0 to urge
the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) to support
comprehensive tax disclosure legislation. The resolution goes
to the entire board on Aug. 30.
The resolution, crafted by MPS Board President Peter Blewett,
recognizes that schools are dependent on a reliable stream
of adequate state revenue. As the resolution states, however,
“few members of the public have access to accurate and
current information about who actually pays Wisconsin taxes
and how much they pay.”
The resolution urges the state’s school boards to endorse
a tax disclosure law that would require three elements:
» A regular tax incidence study, “showing how
tax responsibility is distributed among income groups and
other categories”
»A regular report on tax expenditures (“tax
credit, deduction and exemption programs that reduce state
and local revenue”)
»Publicly accessible data on state corporate income
taxes.
Click here for the
full text of the MPS resolution (this is the
Word document).
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