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Elections to fill the partisan office of Milwaukee County treasurer have often been quiet, sometimes with no competition on the ballot. That changed this year with longtime Treasurer David Cullen ...
The City of Milwaukee voted in June to implement a 2% sales tax. Milwaukee County will increase its sales tax from 0.5% to 0.9%. When both are implemented, the total sales tax paid in the City of ...
The Assessor's Office does not set the tax levy. That is set by the budgets adopted by taxing jurisdictions that include the city, Milwaukee County and Milwaukee Public Schools. Alison Dirr can be ...
David A. Cullen (born February 1, 1960) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.He is the current treasurer of Milwaukee County.Prior to his election as treasurer in 2014, he served 13 years as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1990–2013), two years on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors (2012–2014), and 7 years on the Milwaukee Public ...
While he triumphed over initiating the efforts that eventually led to the construction of Miller Park nearly 10 years later, upgrading Mitchell International Airport, and expanding the parks system, his time in office was also remembered for high property tax increases and a scandal within the Milwaukee County Zoo system.
Milwaukee attorney Kossuth Kent Kennan, then a tax attorney working for the Wisconsin Central Railroad, was the first to draft and propose a state tax commission to investigate and propose reforms to the taxation system. [2] Kennan convinced a legislator to introduce his proposal in the 1889 session of the Legislature, but it was not enacted.
The Wisconsin Department of Revenue says customers should ask for a refund if they were erroneously charged the city's sales tax by a business. Milwaukee's new sales tax is wrongly affecting some ...
Property assessments are arriving in Milwaukee mailboxes, and values across the city are going up. Citywide, values increased 17.4% from 2023 to 2024, according to the Assessor's Office. Assessed ...