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Sensible Tax Change to State Income Tax Would Raise $450 Million
Georgia is one of a few states that allows a deduction for state income taxes for filers who itemize. Repealing it would bring in an estimated $450 million, which in K-12 education alone, could have prevented the six furlough days and additional cuts to the education funding formula in the amended budget. Repealing it prevents the current inequitable decrease in the effective tax rate for Georgia taxpayers who itemize compared to those who do not.
Posted:
3/11/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes,
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State Budget Facts: Georgia Has Many Revenue Options Other Than Deep Cuts
Georgia Has Many Revenue Options Available: Lawmakers should avoid harming Georgia’s economy more by slashing vital services and decimating state government
Posted:
3/3/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes
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State Budget Facts: Spending Cuts Harm Georgia’s Economy More Than Targeted Tax Increases
Lawmakers should close the deficit and protect local economies by raising more revenues: “It is important not to crush state budgets by relying solely on spending cuts,” said Zandi of Moody’s
Economy.com.
Posted:
3/1/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes,
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State Budget Facts: Cutting Education Is NOT the Only Option
Education comprises more than 50 percent of state spending; therefore, if lawmakers refuse to add new revenues to the state budget, the likely consequences for years to come are: larger class sizes in K-12 schools, less school days for some K-12 schools, more adjunct faculty at colleges and universities instead of full-time faculty, cuts in pay for teachers and instructors, and less supportive services such as tutoring, advising, and professional development.
Posted:
2/24/2010
Category:
Budget,
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DHS Budget Facts: Deep Cuts in the Frontline
The governor’s proposed state budget cuts for fiscal
year 2011 total $116.5 million, or 18.2 percent, of the
Department of Human Services’ (DHS) budget.
Posted:
2/23/2010
Category:
Welfare and Food Stamps,
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Last Chance for Policymakers to Fund Forest Land Protection Act Reimbursements
The Amended Fiscal Year 2010 budget should contain the first state reimbursements to certain schools and counties for property tax exemptions provided in the Forest Land Protection Act of 2008. Without these funds, several rural school districts face another loss of revenue, beyond the cuts to formula funding experienced across districts.
Posted:
2/22/2010
Category:
Budget, Family Economic Security,
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Fact Sheet: Medicaid Crisis
Medicaid Crisis: Lawmakers Should Find New Revenues to ensure healthcare for most vulnerable. Georgia needs new revenue for the state’s Medicaid program to avoid devastating cuts to provider reimbursement rates and patient eligibility.
Posted:
2/17/2010
Category:
Budget, Health,
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Fact Sheet: The Only Solution to Georgia's Multi-Billion Dollar Shortfall Is a Balanced Approach
Georgia’s budget crisis is not due to funding the wrong
priorities or waste and inefficiency. Georgia has a
revenue problem. To avoid devastating cuts to such
vital government services as education, healthcare, and
public safety, Georgia needs a balanced approach to
the budget crisis, an approach that includes additional
revenues, not just budget cuts.
Posted:
2/12/2010
Category:
Budget,
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Fact Sheet: Governor's Proposed Budgets Cut Vital Eligibility Workers
The governor's proposed Department of Human Services (DHS) budget cut 138 eligibility workers in FY 2011. Eligibility workers process applications for Georgians in need of "safety net" supports. Georgia should use new federal funds to increase the number of eligibility caseworkers.
Posted:
2/12/2010
Category:
Budget, Family Economic Security, Welfare and Food Stamps,
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Fact Sheet: Why Revenues are Falling and What Georgia Can do About It
The state budget deficit is due to a lack of revenues. State
revenue collections, as a percentage of personal income, have
declined dramatically over the past 10 years. As Georgians’ incomes have increased, the amount the state
collects has not kept pace.Without new revenues, Georgia is facing an additional $2.6 billion deficit in FY 2012, according to the governor.
Posted:
2/12/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes
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Improving Access to Food Stamps in Georgia
Posted:
1/3/2005
Category:
Welfare and Food Stamps
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Setting the Record Straight: State Employment in Georgia
Posted:
1/24/2005
Category:
Budget
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Tax Reform and Modernization in Georgia: The First Steps
This report discusses various tax changes that would help bring fairness, equity and adequacy to the current tax structure.
Posted:
2/7/2005
Category:
Taxes
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Analysis of HB 5: Sales Tax Holiday
Posted:
2/11/2005
Category:
Taxes
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FY 2006 Budget as Adopted by General Assembly
Posted:
4/8/2005
Category:
Budget
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Don't Tax and They Will Come? The Questionable Link Between Corp. Income Tax & Economic Development
This report looks at the link between state corporate incomes taxes and economic development. Research on the outcomes of connecting corporate income taxes and economic development does not offer support for the use of taxes as a tool for development.
Posted:
7/18/2005
Category:
Taxes
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State of Working Georgia 2005
Using the latest census data GBPI looks at the conditions of Georgia's working families in 2004 and how those conditions compare to the nation, to the region and to the past.
Posted:
9/6/2005
Category:
Family Economic Security
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The Truth About TABOR: What it Would Mean For Georgia
This report discusses the conceptual flaws of TABOR, the effects of TABOR in Colorado, tax and spending trends in Georgia, and the possible effects TABOR might have in Georgia.
Posted:
9/12/2005
Category:
Taxes
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Real Costs of Raising Foster Children in Georgia: How Georgia's Per Diem Can Keep Up
This report looks at the financial supports available within Georgia's family foster care system in comparison to the real costs of raising a child.
Posted:
9/19/2005
Category:
Budget
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Elimating the Property Tax for Education: Analysis of HR 58
This brief highlights tax policy issues concerning HR 58, and highlights alternative options for both reducing property taxes and increasing state funding for education.
Posted:
11/7/2005
Category:
Taxes
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A Look at the Property Tax
This report provides an overview of the property tax, with a cautionary tale from South Carolina's property tax reform experience.
Posted:
1/15/2008
Category:
Taxes
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A Place to Start Scaling Back on Tax Breaks: House Bill 100
In light of the over $2 billion revenue shortfall and the painful cuts to vital services, tax breaks - including the student scholarship organization tax credit - need to be scaled back. Why should tax credits that subsidize private school tuition be spared the chopping block when many state services that are proven cost savers are being scaled back?
Posted:
2/13/2009
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up The 2009 Fiscal Notes
The House of Representatives passed 16 tax break bills that would result in a revenue decline of $228 million in FY 2010 and $614 million in FY 2012, according to the official fiscal notes on the bills. The House of Representatives also passed 3 revenue-raising bills which would increase revenues by $315 million in FY 2010, $330 million in FY 2011, and $301 million in FY 2012.
Posted:
3/24/2009
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up the 2009 Fiscal Notes: Tax Bills Passed by the House and Senate for Gov's Sig or Veto
If Governor Perdue signs all of the tax bills passed by the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate, state revenues will decline by an additional $116 million in FY 2010 and more than $1 billion in FY 2012. Passed 16 tax cuts and 2 ways to raise revenue.
Posted:
4/17/2009
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up the Fiscal Impact: 2005 and 2006 Legislative Session Tax Bills
Posted:
4/6/2006
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up the Fiscal Notes 2008: Final Tax Bills After Governor's Vetoes
This policy brief quantifies the fiscal impact of all the tax bills passed by the General Assembly during the 2008 legislative session.
Posted:
5/23/2008
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up the Fiscal Notes, 2007
This report highlights the final tax bills passed in 2007, after the Governor's vetoes.
Posted:
5/4/2007
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up The Fiscal Notes: 2005-2008
Between 2005 and 2008, 35 tax bills were passed and signed into law with expected revenue consequences for the current fiscal year. The combined effect of these tax bills will be an estimated $291 million state revenue loss in the current fiscal year and $333 million in FY 2010.
Posted:
2/13/2009
Category:
Taxes
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Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: Tax Bills Signed into Law by Governor after the 2009 Legislative Session
Georgia will lose $99 million in state revenues in FY 2010 (beginning July 1, 2009) and $35 million in FY 2011 due to 17 bills passed by the House of Representatives and Senate and signed into law by the governor.
The governor prevented significant revenue loss by vetoing House Bill 481 (the so-called JOBS Act), which would have decreased state revenues by $1.5 billion over the next three years.
Posted:
5/15/2009
Category:
Taxes
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An Investment in Children and Working Families: Subsidized Child Care for Ages Birth Through Four
This report examines Georgia's subsidized child care programs, including Child Care and Parents Services (CAPS), Pre-K, and Head Start/Early Head Start. Current capacity, spending, waitlists, and need are examined.
Posted:
8/25/2008
Category:
Family Economic Security
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