People who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene or California wildfires could get a sizeable tax break to move to Wisconsin, the Associated Press reports.
Republican legislators in the Dairy State have proposed a bill that would give anyone who moves to Wisconsin from North Carolina or Los Angeles County because they were displaced by one of the disasters a $10,000 income tax credit for the 2025 tax year. People who have been convicted of felonies wouldn’t be eligible.
The bill’s authors, state Rep. Cindi Duchow and state Sen. Dan Feyen, said in a memo to their colleagues seeking co-sponsors that the tax credit could draw people to the state and help alleviate chronic workforce shortages, particularly in the health care sector.
A task force that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers formed to study Wisconsin’s worker shortage released a report in August showing a potential deficit of up to 19,000 registered nurses in the state by 2040 and nearly 32,000 annual openings in the health care field over the next five years.
