The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-02-11
BIG SAVING TO TAXPAYERS
Gov. Blaine Is Preparing His Finance
Message to the Legislature
Miss McSwiney Addresses
SoIons.
BY FRED 1. HOLMES.

luis DILL is patterned after the Mil
nesota law and would give counties
of the state the right to adopt a COM
mission form. There would be from
three to five members on the county
commission, and these men would per-
form all the duties now exercised by
county board of supervisors. The
measure is not a new one before the
legislature and is supported by the
members from northern Wisconsin,
who claim that the plan has worked
out successfully in the state Of Mime
sofa. County boards of the state now
have membership of from 80 to %
men. 1t is claimed that this new plan
would save much money to the tax
payers of the state.
Gov. John J. Blaine is preparing his
finance message to the legislature. 1t
will probably be read In both houses
Tuesday. February Is.
Members of the legislature on Tues
day evening listened to an address by
Miss Mary McSwiney of Ireland. She
| Is sister of the late lord mayor Of
Cork who starved to death in an Eng
ljsh prison., She urged the legislature
freedom.
A revision of the regular income tax
returns in the state, which have been
undisturbed since the enactment of the
law in 1911, will be provided in a bill
which will be introduced in the house
hxy h xJr1o Lob II
Dahl, Barron county. The bill is an
administration measure and it's gen.
eral features were recommended by
Gov. John L. Blaine in his message to
the legislature. The measure incOr-
! pOrates many other tax reforms which
were advocated in the governors mes
sage.
The feature of the bill are:
Increase of regular tax returns
Repeal of personal property offset
under income tax law.
Repeal of the secrecy clause of the
present income tax law.
The Dahl bill will be a companion to
the SeverSOn surtaX bill, which has al
ready been introduced in the upper
house. The SeversOn bill affects in
comes in excess of $4,000. The Dahl
bill is designed to revise the rates of
incomes for lesser amounts.
One of the features of the Dahl bill,
aside from the rates, is the exemptions.
He has provided in the present law
given exemption of $500 for a single
person. ST 200 for a married couple and
5000 for each child The other bill pro-
vided for 81 900 for a single person,
$1,000 for married and 5000 for each
child
The schedule of rates above exemp-
tons provided in the Dahl bill are as
follows:
One per cent for the first 81 900 tax
able income; l IL per cent on the sec
ond $1,000 or any part thereof of tax
able income; = per cent on the third
1000 or any part thereof of taxable
income; 3 per cent on the fourth 81 900
or any part thereof of taXable-income
per cent on the fifth $1,000 OF any
part thereof of taxable income: per
cent on the sixth $1,000 or any part
thereof of taxable income per cent
on the seventh $1,000 taxable income
and 8 per cent on all taxable income
in excess of $1,000. This bill has been
worked out in conferences between AS
semblyman Dahl. members of the state
tax commission and Gov. John !.
Blaine. 1t is entirely an independent
measure of the SeversOn bill, although
a cOrrolary to it. These returns ap-
ply to the incomes of corporations and
individuals alike. The bill also repeats
deductions granted in the original law
of 1911 received from the state banks
, national banks, mutuaI saving banks
and trust companies, subject to taxa
ton n this state.
One of the most far-reaching educa-
tional measures to be introduced at
this session came into the senate on
Wednesday from Senator II. L. Peter
son of Sturgeon Bay 1t provides for
the election of school boards in all
cites of the state outside of Milwaukee.
1t will affect 81 cities in Wisconsin.
BY the terms of the bill the school
board shall be independent of the city
council and will have taxing power up
to per cent of the assessed value of
the property in the district. Each and
every such school district shall be an
Independent corporation, separate and
distinct from all the other departments
of city government.
The Voters and Taxpayers League
of the town of Bingham and the vii
lage of Barneveld petitioned the SEN
ate to abolish the state board of pub
lie affairs and the emergency board
and that no new boards of commissions
be established. They further asked
that no new capitol building be allowed
in Milwaukee sfor the reason that the
voters of the state had come to realize
that the 100000 asked for meant ut
least S5OO.OOO.