Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE)
Franchise — Taxation Income tax — Credit Sunset Taxation
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill repeals various tax credits that taxpayers may no longer earn because of sunset provisions related to each of those credits, repeals various obsolete tax provisions, and updates other tax provisions to reflect those changes. Current law allows taxpayers to carry forward certain unused nonrefundable tax credits to future years. Under the bill, the repeal of any nonrefundable tax credits is delayed until the date that those credits may no longer be used. The bill repeals, among others, the following tax credits and other obsolete tax provisions:
1. The armed forces member credit.
2. The biodiesel fuel production credit.
3. The community development finance credit.
4. The dairy and livestock farm investment credit.
5. The development, development opportunity, development zone additional research, and enterprise development zones credits.
6. The electronic medical records credit.
7. The economic development tax credit.
8. The ethanol and biodiesel fuel pump credit.
9. The health insurance risk-sharing plan assessments credit.
10. The internet equipment credit.
11. The jobs tax credit and the corresponding appropriation.
12. The manufacturing investment credit.
13. The manufacturing sales tax credit.
14. The postsecondary education credit.
15. The research facilities credit.
16. The super research and development credit.
17. The technology zones credit.
18. The water consumption credit.
19. The veteran employment credit.
20. The credit for investment in certified capital companies.
21. Provisions related to computation of apportionment of business income for tax years prior to 2008.
22. Obsolete Internal Revenue Code definitions.
23. Income tax rates and brackets for tax years prior to 2025.
24. Income tax return donation checkoffs that are discontinued.
25. The alternative minimum tax.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Registered lobbying interests · 1
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
Votes
Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 0
Passed 8–0 Nov 20, 2025 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 0
Passed 8–0 Nov 20, 2025 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Wittke, Brill, Brooks, Dittrich, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Murphy, Neylon, O'Connor, Penterman, Piwowarczyk and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Cabral-Guevara and Nass
- Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means
- Oct 28, 2025 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Nov 5, 2025 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Nov 5, 2025 · Assembly
Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Wittke
- Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly
Executive action taken
- Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly
Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 0
- Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly
Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 0
- Nov 20, 2025 · Assembly
Referred to committee on Rules
- Jan 8, 2026 · Assembly
Placed on calendar 1-13-2026 by Committee on Rules
- Jan 13, 2026 · Assembly
Laid on the table
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1