Wisconsin Property Tax Classification Amendment, Question 6 (April 1961)

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The Wisconsin Property Tax Classification Amendment was a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment on the April 4, 1961 ballot in Wisconsin, where it was approved.

• This amendment modified Article VIII, Section 1 of the Wisconsin Constitution to separate private and personal property from other merchant property for tax purposes.

Election results

Question 6
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		381,881	63.40%
No		220,434	36.60%

Official results via: The Wisconsin Blue Book 1962

Text of measure

The language that appeared on the ballot:

"Shall section 1 of article VIII of the constitution be amended so that the taxation of merchants' stock-in-trade, manufacturers' materials and finished products, and livestock need not be uniform with the taxation of real and other personal property, but the taxation of all such merchants' stock-in-trade, manufacturers' materials and finished products and livestock shall be uniform, except that the legislature may provide that the value thereof shall be determined on an average basis?

Path to the ballot

• First Legislative Approval: AJR 120 & JR 77 (1959)
• Second Legislative Approval: SJR 34 & JR 13 (1961)

See also

Suggest a link

• 1961 ballot measures
• Wisconsin 1961 ballot measures
• List of Wisconsin ballot measures

External links

• The Wisconsin Blue Book 1962
• "Facsimile Ballot Notice of Judicial, School Superintendent and Referenda Election, Dane County, April 4, 1961," The Capital Times, March 27, 1961