Bills by subject

Income tax: Credit

212 bills and resolutions. 31 became law, 3 were vetoed, and 93 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

AB 602 Participating in the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 176 An income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 291 Making certain child care expenditures eligible for the business development tax credit. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 182 Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Became law. Last action Apr 9, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 81

Mar 23, 2026
AB 17: Creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 20: Allowing certain married persons to claim the earned income tax credit when filing a separate return. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 139: A tax credit for relocating to this state due to Hurricane Helene or the Los Angeles wildfires. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 182: Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 183: Standard industrial classification codes for linen supply and industrial launderers and modifying the manufacturing and agriculture tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 204: Creating a video game production tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 219: A tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 222: A sustainable aviation fuel production tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 231: Creating a tax credit for expenses related to film production services and for capital investments made by a film production company, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 264: Certain limitations on claiming the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Dec 10, 2025
AB 280: Workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 283: Making certain child care expenditures eligible for the business development tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 333: A refundable income tax credit for bicycle purchases and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 369: A tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 373: Creating a refundable individual income tax credit for the parent of a stillbirth and making an appropriation. (FE)
Became law.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 375: Modifications to the historic rehabilitation tax credit. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 403: Requiring universal changing stations in certain buildings, creating a tax credit for installation of the stations, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 428: The University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project, funding for the veterans housing and recovery program, eligibility changes for the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 472: A nuclear energy generation tax credit; prioritizing nuclear energy resources; approval of certain electric tariffs for very large customers; and authorizing electric utilities to recover certain precertification costs through rates. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 494: Increasing the carryover period of the research income tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 525: Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 13, 2026
AB 602: Participating in the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 618: A sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 619: A tax credit for aviation biofuel manufacturing, authorizing the state to contract public debt for an aviation biofuel project grant, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 660: Refundable individual income tax credit for premarital counseling and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 699: A long-term care insurance assessment and a long-term care insurance assessment tax credit. (FE)
Became law.
Apr 9, 2026
AB 700: An appropriation for refundable long-term care insurance assessment credits and making an appropriation. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 702: Income tax credit for in vitro fertilization medical expenses. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 721: Income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 852: Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 878: A tax credit for certain sales and use taxes paid on services sold through an amusement device. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 2, 2026
AB 884: Who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film production services credit.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 915: Tax credit for small businesses offering individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 976: Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1030: Increasing the earned income tax credit for families with fewer than three children. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1090: The statewide policy regarding homelessness, an income tax credit for property taxes paid by senior citizens, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 1118: Refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 24, 2026
AB 1130: A premium assistance individual income tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
AB 1179: Creating WisEARNS, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 8, 2026
AB 1227: An income tax credit for property taxes paid by certain senior citizens and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 20: Allowing certain married persons to claim the earned income tax credit when filing a separate return. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 21: Creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 118: A tax credit for relocating to this state due to Hurricane Helene or the Los Angeles wildfires. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 176: An income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 177: Standard industrial classification codes for linen supply and industrial launderers and modifying the manufacturing and agriculture tax credit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 178: Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 204: Creating a video game production tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 213: A tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 231: Creating a tax credit for expenses related to film production services and for capital investments made by a film production company, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 261: Certain limitations on claiming the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 284: A sustainable aviation fuel production tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 286: Workforce housing and childcare awards under the business development tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
May 13, 2026
SB 291: Making certain child care expenditures eligible for the business development tax credit. (FE)
Vetoed by the governor.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 344: A refundable income tax credit for bicycle purchases and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 6, 2026
SB 376: A tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE)
Became law.
Apr 8, 2026
SB 379: Creating a refundable individual income tax credit for the parent of a stillbirth and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 382: Modifications to the historic rehabilitation tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 398: Requiring universal changing stations in certain buildings, creating a tax credit for installation of the stations, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 411: The University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project, funding for the veterans housing and recovery program, eligibility changes for the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 456: A tax credit for aviation biofuel manufacturing, authorizing the state to contract public debt for an aviation biofuel project grant, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 9, 2026
SB 482: Increasing the carryover period of the research income tax credit. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 502: A nuclear energy generation tax credit; prioritizing nuclear energy resources; approval of certain electric tariffs for very large customers; and authorizing electric utilities to recover certain precertification costs through rates. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 27, 2026
SB 529: Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 600: Participating in the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 635: Refundable individual income tax credit for premarital counseling and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 637: A sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 683: An appropriation for refundable long-term care insurance assessment credits and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 684: A long-term care insurance assessment and a long-term care insurance assessment tax credit. (FE)
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 687: Income tax credit for in vitro fertilization medical expenses. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 723: Income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 841: Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 865: A tax credit for certain sales and use taxes paid on services sold through an amusement device. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 880: Who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film production services credit.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 896: Tax credit for small businesses offering individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 942: Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1015: Increasing the earned income tax credit for families with fewer than three children. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1074: Refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 1091: A premium assistance individual income tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Apr 7, 2026
SB 1137: Creating WisEARNS, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 54

Dec 12, 2011
AB 1: Processing refunds for the jobs tax credit.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 5: The dairy and livestock farm investment credits.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 15: An income and franchise tax credit for businesses that purchase goods and services from Wisconsin vendors and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 16: The jobs tax credit.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 19: The dairy and livestock farm investment credits.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 20: Allowing refunds for the early stage seed and angel investment tax credits and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 25: Increasing the credit amount and allowing the transfer of the angel investment tax credit.
Stopped in committee.
Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 58: State finances, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the Medical Assistance program, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 61: Creating an income and franchise tax credit for constructing and operating a data center that is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact and providing an exemption from rule-making procedures.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

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Mar 23, 2012
AB 90: Entrepreneurial tax credit access grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 112: Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for tuition expenses paid for dependents who attend private elementary and secondary schools.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 171: An income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 186: An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution, increasing the credit amounts for the dairy manufacturing facility, meat processing facility, and food processing facility investment credits, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 191: The Wisconsin Small Company Advancement program, requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to issue bonds and notes to raise capital for investment by venture capital funds in Wisconsin businesses, allowing refunds for the early stage seed and angel investment tax credits, authorizing positions for the University of Wisconsin, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 205: A tax credit for hospitality business advertising.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 211: An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 220: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 341: The eligibility for relocation tax benefits.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 357: Allowing members of a dairy cooperative to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit in the next taxable year.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 358: Creating a nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credit for purchasing and installing a thermal biomass heating system.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 359: An income and franchise tax credit for providing broadband service.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 360: An income and franchise tax credit for lumber manufacturing facility investments and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 376: Authorizing the sale or transfer of tax credits in counties experiencing high rates of unemployment.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 437: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed disabled veterans.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 489: Financial assistance for the livestock premises registration program, a tax credit for livestock identification tags and tag-reading equipment, and making an appropriation.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 587: An income tax and franchise tax credit for training apprentices.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 601: The angel investment and early stage seed investment tax credit programs.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 637: Disregarding a taxpayer's election to include another in its combined group, disallowing certain carry-forward amounts for combined reporting purposes, repealing the income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income, repealing the changes made to the earned income tax credit in 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, restoring indexing provisions to the homestead tax credit, eliminating the individual income tax exclusion for long-term capital gains other than for farm assets, computing the estate tax based on 2002 federal law, and creating a new individual income tax upper bracket.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 10, 2012
AB 638: Technical changes to the qualified production activities income and franchise tax credit.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 722: Changing the computation order for the dairy and livestock farm investment credit.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 732: Research and research facilities tax credits related to internal combustion engines.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 5: Processing refunds for the jobs tax credit.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Apr 21, 2011
SB 9: The dairy and livestock farm investment credits.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 27: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 31: Creating an income and franchise tax credit for constructing and operating a data center that is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact and providing an exemption from rule-making procedures.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 69: Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for tuition expenses paid for dependents who attend private elementary and secondary schools.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 120: An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution, increasing the credit amounts for the dairy manufacturing facility, meat processing facility, and food processing facility investment credits, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 122: The Wisconsin Small Company Advancement program, requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to issue bonds and notes to raise capital for investment by venture capital funds in Wisconsin businesses, allowing refunds for the early stage seed and angel investment tax credits, authorizing positions for the University of Wisconsin, and making appropriations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 123: An income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 137: Making companies that hire persons who are not legally in the United States ineligible for certain tax exemptions, governmental contracts, grants, and loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 164: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 201: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed individuals.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 210: Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts paid for amino acid-based elemental formula.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 227: Income and franchise tax credits for insulating concrete forms used to construct a building and energy efficient products.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 260: Allowing members of a dairy cooperative to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit in the next taxable year.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 291: Authorizing the sale or transfer of tax credits in counties experiencing high rates of unemployment.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 6, 2012
SB 369: An income and franchise tax credit for hiring unemployed disabled veterans.
Became law.
Apr 16, 2012
SB 396: Financial assistance for the livestock premises registration program, a tax credit for livestock identification tags and tag-reading equipment, and making an appropriation.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 448: An income tax and franchise tax credit for training apprentices.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 10, 2012
SB 463: The angel investment and early stage seed investment tax credit programs.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 512: Changing the calculation of the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit as it relates to a claimant's principal dwelling.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 526: Technical changes to the qualified production activities income and franchise tax credit.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 543: Changing the computation order for the dairy and livestock farm investment credit.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 77

Apr 28, 2010
AB 12: A meat processing facility investment income and franchise tax credit, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 18: The income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 34: Allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 37: Allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 53: Making companies that employ unauthorized aliens ineligible for certain tax exemptions, governmental contracts, grants, and loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 74: Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes.
Stopped in committee.
May 26, 2010
AB 75: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2009 legislature.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 77: Increasing the amount of the early stage seed and angel investment credits.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 80: An education tax credit for businesses.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 91: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

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