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Group Wants More Tax Collectors

Spend money to make money, eh?

Hiring 155 new tax-collection agents or auditors would bring in $175 million over the next two years - cash that would help ease the budget crisis, according to a report released today.

The Institute for Wisconsin’s Future report will touch off this Capitol debate: Should the state Revenue Department, where large-case auditors each collect up to $1.9 million a year in taxes and assessments, be exempt from Gov. Jim Doyle’s order that state agencies generally not fill vacancies and abolish unfilled jobs?

Doyle issued that order in November, when he estimated that tax collections may be $5.4 billion short of paying for state spending over the next two years - a shortfall state Administration Secretary Michael Morgan has called the worst deficit in history.

Posted by Owen at 2304 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Well there’s 155 of Obama’s 2-3 million new jobs ...

   Posted by hsgbdmama on January 09, 2009 at 0901 hrs
   
   
   

2. If this came to pass, the irony would just be too sweet for the human tongue.

   As agencies that actually provide service are pared back, DOR swells its ranks…  The campaign ads practically write themselves.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2009 at 0944 hrs
   
   
   

3. Implement the Fair Tax and get rid of the entire Department of Revenue.  There, I just saved WI a bunch of money.

   

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2009 at 1240 hrs
   
   
   

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