More anecdotal evidence…..

The gentleman who was been preparing my tax returns for the past 18 years, an experienced accountant and tax preparer, retired earlier this year. He had owned a property with a house, home offices for his tax preparation and investment services and acreage in Paoli his entire adult life. He sold his property in Wisconsin and relocated to Missouri because of the exorbant property taxes collected by Dane County and the state of Wisconsin.

Why would you want Wisconsin to collect state taxes on military pensions?

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that a soldier/sailor/marine or airman was a legal citizen of another state the whole time they earned their pension. By virtue of simply moving to Wisconsin and becoming a resident of the state of Wisconsin, that a military and/or federal pension (under the old law) became taxable to Wisconsin. Why should Wisconsin be permitted to take a piece of something that they (the state) had nothing to do with?

I don’t recall the exact year, but the last Republicangovernor, Scott McCallum, was actually responsible for changing the law so that military retirees pensions were not also taxed in Wisconsin. Those pensions are taxable at the federal level.

Marshall

My bad, the confusion was on my end. I don’t know of anyone who is truly in favor of additional taxes, on anything.