Milwaukee’s Baseball Stadium Tax About to Phase Out

Taxpayers in southeastern Wisconsin will be free of paying $30 million a year in a special baseball stadium tax supporting Miller Park, home to the Milwaukee Brewers, under legislation headed to Gov. Tony Evers (D).

The Wisconsin Senate Nov. 5 unanimously supported A.B. 73, which permanently retires the stadium tax beginning Jan. 1, 2020. The 23-year-old revenue program imposes a 0.1% sales and use tax on all retail sales, licenses, leases, and rentals within the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District. The district captures five counties in Southeast Wisconsin including Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, and Waukesha.

The bill ...