State Supreme Court won't hear tax refund case

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not consider giving the Xerox Corporation a $104,000 tax refund.

The justices have refused to act on a ruling last summer from a state appeals court, which said Xerox must pay personal property taxes on some of the copiers it leases to business customers.

Xerox said its stand-alone machines which copy, print, fax and scan should be classified as computers, which are exempt from the personal property taxes that businesses pay. But the appeals' court ruled in July that the machines are not computers and should be taxed.

The case involved $8.3 million worth of items taxed in La Crosse and Milwaukee. Xerox had already paid the charges and was seeking a refund.

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