Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. La Follette v. Torphy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided October 3, 1978No. 77-860PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHansen, J.
The enactments place the responsibility for the administration of the Improvements Tax Relief law with the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Dennis J. Conta. In this capacity, he requested the Secretary of the Department of Administration, John Torphy, for an allotment of funds to administer the law.
Torphy refused to honor the request because he had been advised by counsel that the law was in violation of the uniformity of taxation clause of the Wisconsin Constitution (art. VIII, sec. 1) and the equal protection clauses of the Wisconsin Constitution (art. I, sec. 1) and the…
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