MADISON - The Legislature's budget committee approved cutting income taxes Thursday on average by $75 per person this year and $136 per person in 2020.

The Joint Finance Committee took the action as it wrapped up its work on the state budget and sent its spending plan to the Senate and Assembly.

Part of the tax cut was included in the budget and part of it in separate legislation. Together, the Republican plans would reduce income taxes by more than $450 million over two years, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

The income tax cut is smaller than one proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who tried to trim taxes on average by $216 per person this year. Evers' plan also included tax increases for manufacturers and on capital gains — ideas Republicans who control the Legislature have rejected.

"I was just excited we could do this tax cut without a tax shift," said GOP Rep. Terry Kastma of Oostburg, a member of the committee.

Democratic Rep. Chris Taylor of Madison said the GOP plans would perpetuate a "rigged system," and Democratic Rep. Evan Goyke of Milwaukee emphasized that Republicans weren't providing as much tax relief to everyday Wisconsinites as Evers would.

"It’s smaller than the governor’s," Goyke said of the GOP tax cut. "It hits fewer people, provides lower income tax relief than Gov. Evers."

Under the GOP plans, the lowest tax bracket would be reduced from 4% to 3.76% in 2020. The second-lowest bracket would be reduced from 5.84% to 4.93% in 2020.

The other brackets — 6.27% and 7.65% — would remain unchanged.

Part of the tax cut was included in the state budget and approved on a 12-4 vote, with all Republicans in support and all Democrats opposed. The rest of the tax cut was approved unanimously as part of separate legislation.

The budget now goes to the Assembly and Senate, where conservatives have raised some concerns about the overall spending package.

The GOP leaders — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau — said the Assembly would take up the budget on June 25 and the Senate a day or two later.

They said they would talk to rank-and-file Republicans before deciding whether to make any changes to the budget.

"Today legislative Republicans are showing you can fund the state's priorities without unsustainable runaway government spending, without raising taxes and without raising welfare," Vos said. "This is a budget for all of Wisconsin and I certainly hope Gov. Evers will sign the document."

Once Evers gets the budget, he can reshape it using veto powers that allow him to strike out individual words.

The Republican tax plan included in the budget would reduce income taxes on average by $75 per person this year and $77 per person next year, according to the fiscal bureau.

The separate legislation would provide another $59 per person in average lower income taxes in 2020, bringing the total average that year to $136 per person.

Republicans stressed that the vast majority of the tax cut would go to people making less than $150,000 a year.

Republicans in February approved a similar income tax cut for the middle class, but Evers vetoed it because he wanted to pay for it in part by raising taxes on manufacturers.

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Online sales taxes. Wisconsin and other states recently began collecting sales taxes on more online purchases after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for doing so last year.

That's expected to lead to more than $60 million in additional sales tax collections.

The committee unanimously adopted Assembly Bill 251, to use that money to lower the two lowest income tax brackets.

The bill would also require online marketplaces such as Amazon.com to collect sales taxes for third-party sellers. That would generate additional revenue, allowing lawmakers to cut income taxes as deeply as they did on Thursday.

E-cigarette tax. Evers wants to tax e-cigarettes and vaping devices at 71% of the manufacturer's list price, which would generate more than $36 million for the state over two years.

Instead, Republicans voted to impose a much smaller tax of 5 cents per milliliter of the liquid used in vaping products. That tax would generate $5.5 million over two years.

Evers also planned to tax so-called little cigars, or brown cigarettes, similarly to regular cigarettes. Republicans rejected that idea.

Property taxes. Republicans approved cutting property taxes by nearly $60 million over two years by putting more toward the state lottery property tax credit.

Child tax credit. Republicans rejected an Evers proposal to establish a new income tax credit for people with dependent children. Under his plan, such tax filers would have seen an average income tax reduction of $90 a year, starting in 2020.

Home buyers. Republicans also threw out Evers' plan to allow people to set up tax-advantaged accounts to help them save up to buy a first home. The measure was expected to provide $492 in tax benefits per account on average.

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