Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: the sales and use tax exemption for personal farm property or household goods sold by auction on the Internet. (FE)
Auction Farm and farming Personal property Sales tax — Exemption Sanitation and sewerage management
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law provides a sales and use tax exemption for five or fewer auctions for the sale of personal farm property or household goods that are held by the same auctioneer at the same location during the year. This bill provides that the exemption applies to five or fewer auction events that are the sale of such property or goods held by the same auctioneer at the same location during the year. Under the bill, an auction event is the total number of consecutive days for which property at that location is available for bidding. With respect to an auction for which all or some of the bids may be submitted over the Internet, an auction event is the total number of consecutive days that winning bids are selected, regardless of whether the property being sold is at multiple locations.
Because this bill relates to an exemption from state or local taxes, it may be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions for a report to be printed as an appendix to the bill.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Registered lobbying interests · 3
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
Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0
Passed 8–0 Feb 3, 2026 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Full history
- Dec 2, 2025 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Quinn and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Kurtz, Kreibich, Knodl, Murphy, Mursau, Novak and Penterman
- Dec 2, 2025 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Revenue
- Dec 22, 2025 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Jan 28, 2026 · Senate
Public hearing held
- Feb 3, 2026 · Senate
Executive action taken
- Feb 3, 2026 · Senate
Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Revenue, Ayes 8, Noes 0
- Feb 3, 2026 · Senate
Available for scheduling
- Feb 3, 2026 · Senate
Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1