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10/29/2008
Lasee: Website of shame reducing deficit
A law I authored is helping, just a little, with our state’s looming three billion dollar budget deficit. As a result of this law, the Department of Revenue (DOR) runs the Website of Shame. A website where names of businesses and people are posted that owe the state tax payments.
DOR posts a list of all delinquent taxpayers, both corporations and individuals, who owe more than $5,000 and have exhausted all of their appeals. Also, the department will publish the names of the top 100 delinquents. (Click here.) The top 100 together add up to nearly $90 million in delinquent taxes.
This change in Wisconsin law was needed. It used to be, if you wanted to find out how much a law-abiding taxpayer has paid, you paid a $4 fee, provided some information and the state would tell you. DOR wouldn’t tell you if a person or company was delinquent, though. Our state kept delinquency information secret.
Those who are not paying what they owe cost everyone else. The state is owed more than a billion dollars in unpaid taxes. Making delinquents public has helped collect taxes owed.
The DOR mails warning letters quarterly to new delinquents that will be added to the Website of Shame. The DOR will not post the names of taxpayers who have entered into repayment agreements, filed a Petition for Compromise, or filed for bankruptcy.
As of June 2008, the DOR says we have collected $53 Million because of the Website of Shame. This is not enough to solve Wisconsin’s budget woes. It will take something bigger – fiscal responsibility and sound leadership – to do that.
Lowering our tax burden has been my number one goal in the Legislature. Wisconsin takes far too much from its citizens in taxes.
I also believe that if you owe taxes to the state, you should pay them. When some don’t pay what they owe, other payers have to make up for it.
All must do our part.
Frank Lasee is a Republican and represents the 2nd Assembly District.
COMMENTS
If Rep. Lasee were really interested in lowering our tax burden, he'd get behind public funding of campaigns. Yeah, it'd add $5 per taxpayer per year to fund, but it would eliminate much of the $1300 per taxpayer the legislature hands out to those special interests that fund the elections. His included.
A great number of us call our current system bribery and payola, and Lasee can do something about it. But will he?
Jack Lohman (Wed Oct 29 08:07:41 2008)
Well, Jack, what about all the union-funded political c..p we get in our mailbox every year? My husband surely doesn't like his "closed-shop" forced union dues, so let's get on the bandwagon and make WI a right-to-work state, too! The political garbage certainly costs MUCH more than the twenty or so dollars the union claims is used for political endeavors. Judging by the amount of junk our household gets, it's WAAAAY over.
P.S. I hope you are voting for McCain, who I believe also supports public funding. Unlike Obama, who has friends like Tony Rezko, (Syrian millinonaire convicted of fraud and bribery) to help him out. Does nobody ever wonder where he got the money to: 1. take a world trip while in college, 2. go to Columbia University, 3. go to Harvard law school, and 4. buy a 6.5 million house? AND, have money for campaigning?
EMILY MATTHEWS (Thu Oct 30 14:34:27 2008)
Emily, I am 100% in support of open shops, and though I have good union friends I think unions have to take a serious look at their role in driving jobs offshore.
And yes, I voted early and I voted McCain. This year I am a one-issue voter: campaign reform. Get the money out of the political system and all of the other issues will get fixed in the best interest of the public. However, I don’t accept all of the buzz about Obama and his s0-called “associates.” McCain has his too.
I am, however, disappointed in Lasee. He likes to lob the “too many taxes” bomb but refuses to discuss the moneyed political system that fuels them.
Jack Lohman
MoneyedPoliticians.net
Jack Lohman (Thu Oct 30 18:38:24 2008)
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