73.01(4)(e)
(e) Except as provided in
par. (dn), the commission in each case heard by it shall, irrespective of
ch. 227, make a decision in writing accompanied by findings of fact and conclusions of law. The commission may issue an opinion in writing in addition to its findings of fact and decision. The decision or order of the commission shall become final and shall be binding upon the petitioner and upon the department of revenue for that case unless an appeal is taken from the decision or order of the commission under
s. 73.015. Except in respect to small claims decisions, if the commission construes a statute adversely to the contention of the department of revenue:
73.01(4)(e)1.
1. Except for hearings on
ss. 341.405 and
341.45 and except as provided in
subd. 2., the department of revenue shall be deemed to acquiesce in the construction so adopted unless the department of revenue seeks review of the order or decision of the commission so construing the statute. For purposes of this subdivision, the department of revenue has sought review of the order or decision if it seeks review and later settles the case or withdraws its petition for review or if the merits of the case are for other reasons not determined by judicial review. The construction so acquiesced in shall thereafter be followed by the department of revenue.
73.01(4)(e)2.
2. Except for hearings on
ss. 341.405 and
341.45, the department of revenue may choose not to appeal and to nonacquiesce in the decision or order by sending a notice of nonacquiescence to the clerk of the commission, to the legislative reference bureau for publication in the Wisconsin administrative register and to the taxpayer or the taxpayer's representative before the time expires for seeking a review of the decision or order under
s. 73.015. The effect of this action is that, although the decision or order is binding on the parties for the instant case and the decision or order may be cited by the commission and the courts, the commission's conclusions of law, the rationale and construction of statutes in the instant case are not binding upon or required to be followed by the department of revenue in other cases.
73.01(4)(em)1.1. If only 2 commissioners are available to participate in a decision in a case that would otherwise be decided by the full commission, and if the 2 commissioners cannot agree on the resolution of the case, the chairperson of the commission shall make the decision in the case, except that, if the chairperson is not participating in the case, the commissioner participating in the case who has been a commissioner for the longer period of time shall make the decision.
73.01(4)(em)2.
2. If only one commissioner is available to participate in a decision in a case that would otherwise be decided by the full commission, the commissioner who participates in the case shall make the decision.
73.01(4)(f)
(f) All reports, findings, decisions and opinions of the commission, and all evidence received by the commission, including a transcript of any report of the proceedings, shall be open to the inspection of the public, except that the originals of books, documents, records, labels, diagrams, and other exhibits introduced in evidence before the commission, may be withdrawn from the custody of the commission in such manner and upon such terms as the commission may, in its discretion, prescribe.
73.01(4)(g)
(g) The commission shall, in manufacturing property redeterminations under
s. 70.995 for which a refund is due a taxpayer because of a reduction in value by the commission, include in its determination a finding of whether the reduction was due to false or incomplete information supplied by the taxpayer.
73.01(4)(h)
(h) The commission may extend any of its deadlines for persons designated in section
7508 (a) of the internal revenue code for the length of time specified in that section.
73.01(4)(i)
(i) If the department of revenue assesses under
s. 71.74 (9), the commission shall consolidate the appeals of that assessment.
73.01(4m)(a)(a) The final decision or order of the commission shall be issued within 90 days after the date on which the last document necessary to the decision of the matter is received or the date on which a hearing is closed, whichever is later, unless good cause is shown or unless the parties and the commission agree to an extension.
73.01(4m)(b)
(b) No member of the commission, including the chairperson, or its hearing examiner may receive any salary unless he or she first executes an affidavit at the end of each salary period stating that he or she has complied with the deadlines in
par. (a). The affidavit shall be presented to and filed with every official who certifies, in whole or in part, the salary.
73.01(4m)(c)
(c) If a member of the commission, including the chairperson, or its hearing examiner is unable to comply with the deadline under
par. (a), that person shall so certify in the record, and the period is then extended for one additional period not to exceed 90 days.
73.01(5)(a)(a) Any person who is aggrieved by a determination of the state board of assessors under
s. 70.995 (8) or who has filed a petition for redetermination with the department of revenue and who is aggrieved by the redetermination of the department of revenue may, within 60 days of the determination of the state board of assessors or of the department of revenue or, in all other cases, within 60 days after the redetermination but not thereafter, file with the clerk of the commission a petition for review of the action of the department of revenue and the number of copies of the petition required by rule adopted by the commission. Any person who is aggrieved by a determination of the department of transportation under
s. 341.405 or
341.45 may, within 30 days after the determination of the department of transportation, file with the clerk of the commission a petition for review of the action of the department of transportation and the number of copies of the petition required by rule adopted by the commission. If a municipality appeals, its appeal shall set forth that the appeal has been authorized by an order or resolution of its governing body and the appeal shall be verified by a member of that governing body as pleadings in courts of record are verified. The clerk of the commission shall transmit one copy to the department of revenue, or to the department of transportation, and to each party. In the case of appeals from manufacturing property assessments, the person assessed shall be a party to a proceeding initiated by a municipality. At the time of filing the petition, the petitioner shall pay to the commission a $25 filing fee. The commission shall deposit the fee in the general fund. Within 30 days after such transmission the department of revenue, except for petitions objecting to manufacturing property assessments, or the department of transportation, shall file with the clerk of the commission an original and the number of copies of an answer to the petition required by rule adopted by the commission and shall serve one copy on the petitioner or the petitioner's attorney or agent. Within 30 days after service of the answer, the petitioner may file and serve a reply in the same manner as the petition is filed. Any person entitled to be heard by the commission under s.
76.38 (12) (a), 1993 stats., or
s. 76.39 (4) (c),
76.48, or
76.91 may file a petition with the commission within the time and in the manner provided for the filing of petitions in income or franchise tax cases. Such papers may be served as a circuit court summons is served or by certified mail. For the purposes of this subsection, a petition for review is considered timely filed if mailed by certified mail in a properly addressed envelope, with postage duly prepaid, which envelope is postmarked before midnight of the last day for filing.
73.01(5)(b)
(b) The petition shall set forth specifically the facts upon which the petitioner relies, together with a statement of the propositions of law involved, and shall be in such form as the commission by rule designates. After an answer is filed as provided in
par. (a), the matter shall be regarded as at issue and the commission shall set it for hearing. At all times while said appeal is pending before the commission, the petitioner shall keep the commission informed as to the petitioner's residence. Upon the petitioner's failure to do so, the mailing by the commission of a notice of hearing, decision and order or other papers by registered mail to the petitioner's attorney or to the petitioner's last-known address shall constitute good and sufficient service. Petitions and answers may be amended under rules to be prescribed by the commission.
73.01 History
History: 1973 c. 90;
1975 c. 39,
199;
1977 c. 29;
1979 c. 177 s.
85;
1979 c. 221;
1981 c. 20,
317;
1983 a. 27,
277;
1985 a. 29 ss.
1403 to
1411,
3202 (56) (d);
1987 a. 27 ss.
1542m,
1543m,
3202 (47) (a);
1987 a. 142,
186,
198,
312,
399,
403;
1989 a. 31;
1989 a. 56 s.
259;
1989 a. 335;
1991 a. 39,
262,
315,
316;
1993 a. 184,
213;
1995 a. 351;
1997 a. 27;
1999 a. 145;
2001 a. 16;
2003 a. 33;
2005 a. 49;
2007 a. 20;
2011 a. 68.
73.01 Annotation
A subpoena duces tecum need not show on its face the factual basis for its issuance in order to prove lawful purpose and relevancy. The commission properly took testimony even though it was deciding a question of law. Neu's Supply Line, Inc. v. DOR,
52 Wis. 2d 386,
190 N.W.2d 213 (1971).
73.01 Annotation
A party challenging the administration of taxing statutes must exhaust state administrative remedies before commencing an action in state courts under 42 USC 1983. Hogan v. Musolf,
163 Wis. 2d 1,
471 N.W.2d 216 (1991).
73.01 Annotation
Sub. (4) (b) does not grant the commission the authority to certify a class in a class-action that seeks income tax refunds. DOR v. Hogan,
198 Wis. 2d 792,
543 N.W.2d 825 (Ct. App. 1995),
95-0438.
73.01 Annotation
Sub. (5) governs petitions for review to the tax appeals commission of determinations by either the state board of assessors or DOR. It does not govern an attempt to obtain a rehearing of a commission determination, the timeliness of which is governed by s. 227.49 (1). Currier v. DOR,
2006 WI App 12,
288 Wis. 2d 693,
709 N.W.2d 520,
05-0292.
73.01 Annotation
Sub. (4) (b) requires that the commissioner or hearing examiner presiding over the hearing "report" to the tax commission following a hearing but does not specify what is sufficient to fulfill this requirement. The commission fulfilled the reporting requirement by receiving the presiding commissioner's memorandum, considering its proposed findings of fact, and providing reasons for its rejection of those proposed findings. Xerox Corporation v. DOR,
2009 WI App 113,
321 Wis. 2d 181,
772 N.W.2d 677,
07-2884.
73.01 Annotation
Practice before the Wisconsin tax appeals commission. Smrz, 1976 WBB 3.
73.01 Annotation
Procedures before the Wisconsin tax appeals commission. Boykoff, WBB October 1981.
73.015
73.015
Review of determination of tax appeals commission. 73.015(1)(1) This section shall provide the sole and exclusive remedy for review of any decision or order of the tax appeals commission and no person may contest, in any action or proceeding, any matter reviewable by the commission unless such person has first availed himself or herself of a hearing before the commission under
s. 73.01 or has cross-appealed under
s. 70.995 (8) (a).
73.015(2)
(2) Any adverse determination of the tax appeals commission is subject to review in the manner provided in
ch. 227. If the circuit court construes a statute adversely to the contention of the department of revenue, the department shall be deemed to acquiesce in the construction so adopted unless an appeal to the court of appeals is taken, and the construction so acquiesced in shall thereafter be followed by the department.
73.015(3)
(3) Except for decisions and orders in small claims matters, as defined in
s. 73.01 (1) (b), a conclusion of law or other holding in any decision or order of the tax appeals commission may be cited by the commission or the courts as authority unless that conclusion of law or holding has been reversed, overruled, or vacated on the merits on appeal or by a subsequent decision or order of the commission.
73.015 Annotation
Because the commission is the final administrative authority that reviews the decisions of the department of revenue, any deference that might be due to the decision of an administrative agency is due to the commission, not DOR. Although this standard ordinarily applies in the context where there is a conflict between DOR's and the commission's construction of a tax statute, it also applies to the commission's construction of a tax rule. Department of Revenue v. Menasha Corporation,
2008 WI 88,
311 Wis. 2d 579,
754 N.W.2d 95,
04-3239.
73.015 Annotation
The commission is not required to give deference to the department of revenue's interpretation of rules drafted by the department in proceedings before the commission. No authority exists for requiring the commission to defer to the department's construction of its rule. To give the department deference would ignore the boundaries that the legislature created when it gave the commission final authority over all tax questions. Department of Revenue v. Menasha Corporation,
2008 WI 88,
311 Wis. 2d 579,
754 N.W.2d 95,
04-3239.
73.02
73.02
Distribution of money; income tax coordinator. 73.02(1)(1) The department of revenue shall, on the certification of the program agencies that all requirements of the applicable laws have been complied with, perform the mechanical operation of the distribution of all moneys which the state distributes to political subdivisions.
73.02(2)
(2) The secretary shall designate or appoint under the classified service, within the department of revenue, an income tax coordinator, whose duties shall include the setting up and operation of a coordination program with the internal revenue service to facilitate the reporting of federal adjustments to the department and the interchange of information with respect to examination of returns, adjustments to income, extension of limitations, furnishing copies of returns and other activities essential to an integrated and effective coordination program with the internal revenue service.
73.028
73.028
Levy rate limits and debt conditions; rules. The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer the levy rate limits and debt issuance conditions under
ss. 59.605 and
67.045.
73.028 History
History: 1993 a. 16;
1999 a. 150 s.
672.
73.029
73.029
Rules required. The department of revenue may require electronic funds transfer only by promulgating rules.
73.029 History
History: 1997 a. 27.
73.029 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also s.
Tax 1.12, Wis. adm. code.
73.03
73.03
Powers and duties defined. It shall be the duty of the department of revenue, and it shall have power and authority:
73.03(1)
(1) To have and exercise general supervision over the administration of the assessment and tax laws of the state, over assessors, boards of review, supervisors of equalization, and assessors of incomes, and over the county boards in the performance of their duties in making the taxation district assessment, to the end that all assessments of property be made relatively just and equal at full value and that all assessments of income may be legally and accurately made in substantial compliance with law.
73.03(2)
(2) To confer with, advise and direct assessors, boards of review and county boards of assessment as to their duties under the statutes.
73.03(2a)
(2a) To prepare and publish, in electronic form and on the Internet, assessment manuals. The manual shall discuss and illustrate accepted assessment methods, techniques and practices with a view to more nearly uniform and more consistent assessments of property at the local level. The manual shall be amended by the department from time to time to reflect advances in the science of assessment, court decisions concerning assessment practices, costs, and statistical and other information considered valuable to local assessors by the department. The manual shall incorporate standards for the assessment of all types of renewable energy resource systems used in this state as soon as such systems are used in sufficient numbers and sufficient data exists to allow the formulation of valid guidelines. The manual shall incorporate standards, which the department of revenue and the state historical society of Wisconsin shall develop, for the assessment of nonhistoric property in historic districts and for the assessment of historic property, including but not limited to property that is being preserved or restored; property that is subject to a protective easement, covenant or other restriction for historic preservation purposes; property that is listed in the national register of historic places in Wisconsin or in this state's register of historic places and property that is designated as a historic landmark and is subject to restrictions imposed by a municipality or by a landmarks commission. The manual shall incorporate general guidelines about ways to determine whether property is taxable in part under
s. 70.1105 and examples of the ways that
s. 70.1105 applies in specific situations. The manual shall state that assessors are required to comply with
s. 70.32 (1g) and shall suggest procedures for doing so. The manual or a supplement to it shall specify per acre value guidelines for each municipality for various categories of agricultural land based on the income that could be generated from its estimated rental for agricultural use, as defined by rule, and capitalization rates established by rule. The manual shall include guidelines for classifying land as agricultural land, as defined in
s. 70.32 (2) (c) 1g., and guidelines for distinguishing between land and improvements to land. The manual shall specify the evidence to be exchanged under
s. 70.47 (7) (c) and
(16) (c). The cost of the development, preparation, and Internet publication of the manual and of revisions and amendments to it shall be paid from the appropriation under
s. 20.566 (2) (bm).
73.03 Note
NOTE: The supreme court in Metropolitan Associates v. City of Milwaukee,
2011 WI 20, held the amendment of sub. (2a) by
2007 Wis. Act 86 to be unconstitutional and severed from the remainder of the statute. Prior to the amendment by Act 86, sub. (2a) read:
Effective date text
(2a) To prepare and publish, in electronic form and on the Internet, assessment manuals. The manual shall discuss and illustrate accepted assessment methods, techniques and practices with a view to more nearly uniform and more consistent assessments of property at the local level. The manual shall be amended by the department from time to time to reflect advances in the science of assessment, court decisions concerning assessment practices, costs, and statistical and other information considered valuable to local assessors by the department. The manual shall incorporate standards for the assessment of all types of renewable energy resource systems used in this state as soon as such systems are used in sufficient numbers and sufficient data exists to allow the formulation of valid guidelines. The manual shall incorporate standards, which the department of revenue and the state historical society of Wisconsin shall develop, for the assessment of nonhistoric property in historic districts and for the assessment of historic property, including but not limited to property that is being preserved or restored; property that is subject to a protective easement, covenant or other restriction for historic preservation purposes; property that is listed in the national register of historic places in Wisconsin or in this state's register of historic places and property that is designated as a historic landmark and is subject to restrictions imposed by a municipality or by a landmarks commission. The manual shall incorporate general guidelines about ways to determine whether property is taxable in part under s. 70.1105 and examples of the ways that s. 70.1105 applies in specific situations. The manual shall state that assessors are required to comply with s. 70.32 (1g) and shall suggest procedures for doing so. The manual or a supplement to it shall specify per acre value guidelines for each municipality for various categories of agricultural land based on the income that could be generated from its estimated rental for agricultural use, as defined by rule, and capitalization rates established by rule. The manual shall include guidelines for classifying land as agricultural land, as defined in s. 70.32 (2) (c) 1g., and guidelines for distinguishing between land and improvements to land. The cost of the development, preparation, and Internet publication of the manual and of revisions and amendments to it shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.566 (2) (bm).
73.03(3)
(3) To direct proceedings, actions and prosecutions to be instituted to enforce the laws relating to the penalties, liabilities and punishment of public officers, persons, and officers or agents of corporations for failure or neglect to comply with the provisions of the statutes governing the return, assessment and taxation of property; and to cause complaints to be made against assessors, members of boards of review, assessors of incomes, and members of county boards, or other assessing or taxing officers, to the proper circuit judge for their removal from office for official misconduct or neglect of duty.
73.03(4)
(4) To require district attorneys to assist in the commencement and prosecution of actions and proceedings for penalties, forfeitures, removals and punishment for violations of the laws of the state in respect to the assessment and taxation of property, in their respective counties.
73.03(5)
(5) To collect annually from town, city, village, county, and other public officers information regarding the assessment of property, and any other information that may be necessary in the work of the department, in the form and upon forms that the department shall prescribe. All public officers shall properly complete and promptly return to the department all forms received from the department under this subsection.
73.03(5g)
(5g) To examine all town, village, city, and county records for any purposes that are considered necessary by the department.
73.03(5r)
(5r) To publish annually the information collected under
subs. (5) and
(5g), with any compilations, analyses, or recommendations that the department determines are necessary.
73.03(6)
(6) In its discretion to inspect and examine or cause an inspection and examination of the records of any town, city, village, or county officer whenever such officer shall have failed or neglected to return properly the information as required by
sub. (5), within the time set by the department of revenue. Upon the completion of such inspection and examination the department of revenue shall transmit to the clerk of the town, city, village, or county a statement of the expenses incurred by the department of revenue to secure the necessary information. Duplicates of such statements shall be filed in the office of the secretary of administration. Within 60 days after the receipt of the above statement, the same shall be audited, as other claims of towns, cities, villages, and counties are audited, and shall be paid into the state treasury, in default of which the same shall become a special charge against such town, city, village, or county and be included in the next apportionment or certification of state taxes and charges, and collected with interest at the rate of 10% per year from the date such statements were certified by the department, as other special charges are certified and collected.
73.03(7)
(7) The officers responsible for the furnishing of the information collected pursuant to this section shall be jointly and severally liable for any loss the town, city, village or county may suffer through their delinquency; and no payment shall be made them for salary, or on any other accounts, until the cost of such inspection and examination as provided above shall have been paid into the town, city, village or county treasury.
73.03(8)
(8) To require individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, companies, associations and corporations to furnish information concerning their capital, funded or other debt, current assets and liabilities, value of property, earnings, operating and other expenses, taxes and all other facts which may be needful to enable the department to ascertain the value and the relative burdens borne by all kinds of property in the state.
73.03(9)
(9) To summon witnesses to appear and give testimony, and to produce records, books, papers and documents relating to any matter which the department shall have authority to investigate or determine.
73.03(10)
(10) To cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state or absent therefrom, to be taken, upon notice to the interested party, if any, in like manner that depositions of witnesses are taken in civil actions pending in the circuit court, in any matter which the department shall have authority to investigate or determine.
73.03(11)
(11) To visit the counties in the state, unless prevented by other necessary official duties, for the investigation of the work and the methods adopted by local assessors, county assessors, boards of review, supervisors of equalization and county boards, in the assessment, equalization and taxation of property. The department of revenue and its district supervisory staff shall assist the county assessor in carrying out the assessor's duties.
73.03(12)
(12) To carefully examine into all cases where evasion or violation of the laws for assessment and taxation of property is alleged, complained of or discovered, and to ascertain wherein existing laws are defective or are improperly or negligently administered.
73.03(13)
(13) To investigate the tax systems of other states and countries and to formulate and recommend such legislation as may be deemed expedient to prevent evasion of assessment and tax laws and to secure just and equal taxation and improvement in the system of taxation in the state.
73.03(15)
(15) To consult and confer with the governor of the state upon the subject of taxation, the administration of the laws in relation thereto and the progress of the work of the department, and to furnish the governor from time to time such assistance and information as the governor may require.
73.03(17)
(17) To disseminate from time to time, in such manner as shall best be calculated to attract general public attention, facts and data concerning public expenditures, sources of revenue, responsibility for levies, the value and relative tax burdens borne by different classes of property, and other useful and valuable information concerning the subject of taxation and public finance.
73.03(18)
(18) To exercise and perform such further powers and duties as may be granted to or imposed upon the department by law.
73.03(19)
(19) To annually publish the findings of any assessment ratio studies conducted.
73.03(20)
(20) To investigate all delinquent personal property, death and income or franchise taxes and surtaxes in the state and the possibility of the collection of them and to require taxing officials, including town treasurers, county treasurers, sheriffs and district attorneys, to institute proceedings, actions and prosecutions for the collection of delinquent taxes so that the amount of delinquent taxes shall be reduced to the minimum. In carrying out this subsection the department of revenue may examine or cause to be examined by any agent, employee or representative designated by it for that purpose, any books, papers, records or memoranda of any corporation, limited liability company, partnership or individual bearing upon the collection of any delinquent taxes and may require the attendance of the officials of any corporation or limited liability company or of any other person having knowledge in the premises and may take testimony and require proof material for their information upon any matter that they deem of value for the purpose of enforcing the payment of delinquent taxes. The department of revenue may also perform other duties and adopt other procedures that may be necessary to carry out this subsection and direct that proceedings, actions and prosecutions be instituted to enforce the laws relating to the collection of delinquent taxes of every kind. To this end, the department of justice shall, upon the request of the department of revenue, conduct such actions, proceedings or prosecutions or assist the local town, city, village or county officials in them or assist the district attorneys.
73.03(22)
(22) To appear by its counsel and represent the state in all matters before the tax appeals commission. Except as provided in
ch. 72 and in
s. 76.08 (1), the department of justice shall provide legal counsel to appear for the department in all courts, but with the consent of the attorney general a member of the staff of the department may appear for the department.
73.03(25)
(25) To settle and dispose of tax cases or issues pending before the tax appeals commission when, in the judgment of the department of revenue, such action is warranted in the best interests of the state; and, with the approval of the attorney general, to settle and dispose of tax cases or issues pending in the courts.
73.03(26)
(26) To enter into reciprocal agreements with the appropriate official in any other state having a similar law relating to information obtained from returns as authorized by
s. 71.78 (3).
73.03(27)
(27) To write off from the records of the department income, franchise, sales, use, withholding, motor fuel, gift, beverage and cigarette tax and economic development surcharge liabilities, following a determination by the secretary of revenue that they are not collectible. Taxes written off under this subsection remain legal obligations.
73.03(28)
(28) To enter into contracts to collect delinquent Wisconsin taxes. The department shall allocate a portion of the amounts collected under
ch. 78 through those contracts to the appropriation under
s. 20.566 (1) (hm) to pay contract and court costs. The department shall allocate the remainder of those collections to the transportation fund under
s. 25.40. The department shall allocate a portion of the amount collected under
chs. 71,
72,
77 and
139 through those contracts to the appropriation under
s. 20.566 (1) (hm) to pay contract and court costs. The department shall allocate the remainder of those collections to the general fund.
73.03(28d)
(28d) To enter into a contract to participate in the multistate tax commission audit program. The department shall allocate a portion of the amount collected under
chs. 71 and
77 through the contract to the appropriation under
s. 20.566 (1) (hn) to pay the fees necessary to participate in the multistate tax commission audit program. The department shall allocate the remainder of such collections to the general fund.
73.03(28e)
(28e) To participate as a member state of the streamlined sales tax governing board which administers the agreement, as defined in
s. 77.65 (2) (a), and includes having the governing board enter into contracts that are necessary to implement the agreement on behalf of the member states, and to allocate a portion of the amount collected under
ch. 77 through the agreement to the appropriation under
s. 20.566 (1) (ho) to pay the dues necessary to participate in the governing board. The department shall allocate the remainder of such collections to the general fund.
73.03(28m)
(28m) To enter into contracts for database and data processing services for audits of occasional sales of motor vehicles.
73.03(29)
(29) To provide on income tax forms a place for taxpayers to indicate the school district in which they reside and information that will assist persons in identifying the correct school district.
73.03(30)
(30) To analyze the data provided under
sub. (29), after consultation with the department of public instruction and the legislative fiscal bureau, and to notify the presiding officers of the houses of the legislature and the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance of the results of the analysis.
73.03(31)
(31) To compile and to furnish to the clerks of all taxation districts the information required under
s. 74.09.
73.03(33m)
(33m) To collect, as taxes under
ch. 71 are collected, from each person who owes to the department of revenue delinquent taxes, fees, interest or penalties, a fee for each delinquent account equal to $35 or 6.5% of the taxes, fees, interest and penalties owed as of the due date specified in the assessment, notice of amount due or notice of redetermination on that account, whichever is greater. The department of revenue shall deposit into the general fund as general purpose revenue-earned all fees collected under this subsection.
73.03(33p)
(33p) To collect, as taxes under
ch. 71 are collected, from each person who owes to the department of revenue delinquent taxes, fees, interest or penalties, a $20 fee for each delinquent taxpayer who enters into an agreement with the department of revenue to pay in installments the taxpayer's delinquent taxes, including fees, interest or penalties and to collect costs incurred to the department of revenue for court actions that are related to the collection of delinquent taxes. The department of revenue shall deposit into the general fund as general purpose revenue-earned all fees and costs collected under this subsection.
73.03(34)
(34) To extend any deadline in regard to the taxes it administers for persons designated in section
7508 (a) of the internal revenue code for the length of time specified in that section.
73.03(35)
(35) To deny a portion of a credit claimed under
s. 71.07 (2dd),
(2de),
(2di),
(2dj),
(2dL),
(2dm),
(2dr),
(2ds), or
(2dx),
71.28 (1dd),
(1de),
(1di),
(1dj),
(1dL),
(1dm),
(1ds),
(1dx), or
(4) (am),
71.47 (1dd),
(1de),
(1di),
(1dj),
(1dL),
(1dm),
(1ds),
(1dx), or
(4) (am), or
76.636 if granting the full amount claimed would violate a requirement under s.
238.385 or s.
560.785, 2009 stats., or would bring the total of the credits granted to that claimant under all of those subsections over the limit for that claimant under
s. 238.368,
238.395 (2) (b), or
238.397 (5) (b) or s.
560.768, 2009 stats., s.
560.795 (2) (b), 2009 stats., or s.
560.797 (5) (b), 2009 stats.
73.03(36)
(36) To estimate revenues under
subch. VII of ch. 77 and submit to the governor, the joint committee on finance and the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution under
s. 13.172 (2), not later than November 20 of each even-numbered year, a report of its estimate of those revenues for the current biennium and the following biennium.
73.03(37)
(37) To make refunds in connection with motor vehicles returned to the manufacturers by a consumer, as provided under
s. 218.0171 (2) (e) and
(f).
73.03(38)
(38) To require each operator of a swap meet, flea market, craft fair or similar event, as defined by rule, to report to the department the name, address, social security number and, if available, the seller's permit number of each vendor selling merchandise at the swap meet, flea market, craft fair or similar event that he or she operates. If any operator fails to comply with the requirements under this subsection, the department of revenue, after notifying that operator of its intent to do so, shall impose a penalty of $200 for the first failure and $500 for each subsequent failure. The department shall assess and collect the penalties under this subsection as it assesses and collects additional income and franchise taxes.
73.03(40m)
(40m) To include on the form on which a homestead credit is claimed information about the property tax deferral program.
73.03(45)
(45) To direct the assessor of any taxation district to deny specific claims for property tax exemption or to terminate specific existing property tax exemptions prospectively. After receiving such direction, the assessor shall enter the property on the next assessment roll.
73.03(47)
(47) To absolve a taxpayer of liability for interest and penalties if the taxpayer shows that the liability resulted because he or she relied on an erroneous, written statement made by an employee of the department acting in an official capacity and that the taxpayer had given the employee adequate and accurate information.
73.03(48)
(48) To provide the public with information concerning the availability of the earned income tax credit, and the availability of the federal earned income tax credit under section
32 of the internal revenue code, under criteria, and with a description of the methods that the department uses to provide the information, that the department shall promulgate as rules.
