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Department of Revenue: Refund Interceptions
Each year, people owe money to the state. Examples include unpaid parking tickets, unpaid child support, and/or unpaid federal taxes. When that happens, the Department of Revenue will intercept your tax refund and apply it to any outstanding balance owed.
The Department of Revenue is authorized to intercept any state
refund and refundable credit to pay debts owed to other
government agencies. In total, the Department of Revenue has
collected $87.6 million in refunds.
There are 1,068 government agencies that are active participants. Some examples of partners and types of debts that are included are: municipalities, which include delinquent parking tickets and municipal fines; counties, which include delinquent child support costs and county court fees; state agencies, which include DNR (Department of Natural Resources) forfeitures and overpayments of employment; the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), which includes delinquent federal taxes; and other partnering states, which include delinquent child support for children in other states.
The following chart shows the number (in millions) of refunds in
state agencies, counties & municipalities, IRS (Internal Revenue
Service), federal and other, for the past 5 fiscal years.
Tax Refund Intercept (TRIP) Collections
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*Source: Department of Revenue
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Department of Corrections Incarceration Rates in the
Midwest
The Department of Corrections has a nearly $1.3 billion budget
for the 2014-15 fiscal year. They provide over 10,000 jobs, with
two facilities that are located within the 17th Senate District:
Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel and New Lisbon
Correctional Institution in New Lisbon.
As I begin to analyze the Department of Corrections budget
request for the next biennium, I was interested to find out how
Wisconsin’s incarceration rate compares to other states in the
Midwest. The table below identifies the prison population, total
state population, and incarceration rate for Midwestern states
in 2013.
2013 Midwest States Incarceration Rates
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Number of Prisoners |
Total Population |
Incarceration Rate (Per 100,000 residents) |
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| Nationwide | 1,574,741 | 316,128,839 | 498 |
| Illinois | 48,653 | 12,882,135 | 378 |
| Indiana | 29,913 | 6,570,902 | 455 |
| Iowa | 8,697 | 3,090,416 | 281 |
| Kansas | 9,763 | 2,893,957 | 337 |
| Michigan | 43,759 | 9,895,622 | 442 |
| Minnesota | 10,289 | 5,420,380 | 190 |
| Missouri | 31,537 | 6,044,171 | 522 |
| Nebraska | 5,026 | 1,868,516 | 269 |
| North Dakota | 1,513 | 723,393 | 209 |
| Ohio | 51,729 | 11,570,808 | 447 |
| South Dakota | 3,651 | 844,877 | 432 |
| Wisconsin | 22,471 | 5,742,713 | 391 |
*Source: US Census Bureau and the US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics
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