{"id":15128,"date":"2025-02-05T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15128"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:57:21","slug":"court-watch-property-taxes-could-skyrocket-if-supreme-court-overturns-act-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15128","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: Property Taxes Could Skyrocket if Supreme Court Overturns Act 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-property-taxes-could-skyrocket-if-supreme-court-overturns-act-10\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-property-taxes-could-skyrocket-if-supreme-court-overturns-act-10\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For Immediate Release:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">February 4, 2025<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Court Watch: Property Taxes Could Skyrocket if Supreme Court Overturns Act 10<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6880 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Property-Taxes-1-232x300-1.png\" alt width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/>Delafield, Wis. \u2013<\/strong> The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Property-Taxes.pdf\">\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/a> outlining the consequences to taxpayers and local government if the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns Act 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Property-Taxes.pdf\">The primer<\/a> outlines the savings to taxpayers and local governments at stake along with the potential for mass layoffs and cuts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/strong> Repealing Act 10 would set the stage for devastating impacts to state and local taxpayers. It would wipe out hundreds of dollars in annual property tax savings for homeowners and result in potential mass layoffs of public employees and dramatic cuts to state and local programs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirms a Dane County Judge\u2019s decision to repeal Act 10, Wisconsin taxpayers will pay the price,\u201d said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of CIO of IRG. \u201cWisconsinites must understand the potential cost if the Wisconsin Supreme Court decides they should foot the bill of repeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>WHAT\u2019S NEXT:<\/strong> State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Read the primer <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-Act-10-Property-Taxes.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">###<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/\">Institute for Reforming Government<\/a> is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that seeks to simplify government at every level by offering policy solutions to thought leaders in American government in the areas of tax reform, government inefficiency, and burdensome regulations. To view this press release online, <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/in-case-you-missed-it-growing-opposition-to-wisconsins-lowered-test-score-standards\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-property-taxes-could-skyrocket-if-supreme-court-overturns-act-10\/ For Immediate Release: February 4, 2025 Court Watch: Property&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}