Eight rural Wisconsin communities that filed tardy tax paperwork are being penalized a total of about $50,000 in state funding for road repairs this year, according to state records released last week.

The penalties range from about $1,000 for a village in St. Croix County to more than $12,000 for a town in Rusk County. Penalty amounts vary depending on the number of overdue days, prior funding levels and other factors.

For most of the communities, the penalty amounts represent about 10 percent of how much they would have otherwise received from a nearly $115 million pot of state tax dollars for local road repairs.

The list below shows how much each community will get this year, how much it lost through penalties and how many days late it filed mandatory paperwork with state tax authorities.

Town of Union, Burnett County

47 days late

Gets $80,435

Loses $8,937

Village of Wilson, St. Croix County

17 days late

Gets $9,460

Loses $1,051

Town of Thornapple, Rusk County

16 days late

Gets $112,343

Loses $12,483

Town of Hixon, Clark County

12 days late

Gets $98,389

Loses $10,932

Town of Sumpter, Sauk County

10 days late

Gets $50,312

Loses $5,542

Town of Newton, Marquette County

8 days late

Gets $91,564

Loses $7,962

Village of Rosendale, Fond du Lac County

7 days late

Gets $36,938

Loses $2,780

Village of Kekoskee, Dodge County

6 days late

Gets $3,436

Loses $219

State law includes late penalties as an incentive for communities to file annual financial paperwork with tax authorities on time. The information is used to complete funding calculations for a variety of state programs.

In addition to the eight communities penalized this year, a ninth submitted paperwork 36 days late but wasn't dinged for it. According to state transportation officials, the Town of Big Falls in Rusk County couldn't be penalized since it was already due to receive less money through normal state formulas.

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Keegan Kyle is an investigative reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. He can be reached at kkyle@gannett.com or on Twitter @keegankyle.