Wisconsin Code § 70.39

Collection of delinquent tax
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(1) Taxes due and
unpaid on June 15 shall be deemed delinquent as of that date, and
when delinquent shall be subject to a penalty of 4 percent of the
tax and interest at the rate of 1.5 percent per month until paid.
The parent shall be liable for any delinquent taxes of a subsidiary
person. The department shall immediately proceed to collect the
tax due, penalty, interest and costs. For the purpose of collection
the department or its duly authorized agent has the same powers
as conferred by law upon the county treasurer, county clerk, sheriff and district attorney.
(2) Any part of an assessment which is contested before the
tax appeals commission or the courts, which after hearing shall
be ordered to be paid, shall be considered as a delinquent tax if
unpaid on the 10th day following the date of the final order and
shall be subject to the penalty and interest provisions under sub.
(1).
(3) After the tax becomes delinquent, the department shall issue a warrant to the sheriff of any county of the state in which the
metalliferous mineral property is located in total or in part. The
warrant shall command the sheriff to levy upon and sell sufficient of the person’s metalliferous mineral property found within
the sheriff’s county, to pay the tax with the penalties, interest and

costs, and to proceed in the same manner as upon an execution
against property issued out of a court of record, and to return the
warrant to the department and pay to it the money collected, or
the part thereof as may be necessary to pay the tax, penalties, interest and costs, within 60 days after the receipt of the warrant,
and deliver the balance, if any, after deduction of lawful charges
to the person.
(4) (a) Within 5 days after the receipt of the warrant the sheriff shall file a copy of it with the clerk of circuit court of the
county, unless the person makes satisfactory arrangements for
payment with the department, in which case, the sheriff shall, at
the direction of the department, return the warrant to it.
(b) The clerk of circuit court shall enter the warrant as a delinquent income or franchise tax warrant as required under s.
806.11. The clerk of circuit court shall accept, file, and enter the
warrant without prepayment of any fee, but shall submit a statement of the proper fees within 30 days to the department of revenue. Upon audit by the department of administration on the certificate of the secretary of revenue, the secretary of administration shall pay the fees and the fees shall be charged to the proper
appropriation for the department of revenue.
(c) The sheriff shall be entitled to the same fees for executing
upon the warrant as upon an execution against property issued
out of a court of record, to be collected in the same manner.
(d) Upon the sale of any real estate the sheriff shall execute a
deed of the real estate, and the person may redeem the real estate
as from a sale under an execution against property upon a judgment of a court of record. No public official may demand prepayment of any fee for the performance of any official act required in
carrying out this section.

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