Doyle Touts Keeping Tax-Bill Rise to 0.8%; Gard Says Gop Plan Would Have Been Better

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Madison The property tax bill showing up this month for owners of median-valued homes in Wisconsin is expected to rise by an average of $23, or 0.8%, state officials estimated Monday.

The average statewide increase is not the property tax "freeze" Gov. Jim Doyle promised when he rewrote the Legislature's budget last summer. But it is considerably smaller than the $119 average increase of a year ago.

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Doyle Touts Keeping Tax-Bill Rise to 0.8%; Gard Says Gop Plan Would Have Been Better

Doyle was quick to tout the new figures.

"It's an enormous victory," the Democratic governor said of tax- levy limits he imposed with his July vetoes of the budget passed by Republican legislators. "This really worked."

But Republicans were unimpressed, saying that many homeowners will experience the sticker shock GOP lawmakers...

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