Author: Daniel Kanso, PhD

Danny Kanso is a policy analyst for GBPI. He is key in GBPI's fiscal research and focuses on issues related to the state budget, investments and spending, taxes and more.

Overview of Georgia’s 2023 Fiscal Year Budget

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Overview of Georgia’s 2023 Fiscal Year Budget

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    Powered by unprecedented federal support to mitigate the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Kemp’s proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget presents a sharp reversal from the deep budget cuts implemented during FY 2021-22. It includes an 11 percent spike in per-capita state spending that will add approximately $3 billion in funding […]

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Reimagining Revenue: How Georgia’s Tax Code Contributes to Racial and Economic Inequality

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Reimagining Revenue: How Georgia’s Tax Code Contributes to Racial and Economic Inequality

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    You can download the Reimagining Revenue fact sheet here. Executive Summary From the 18th century to the present day, state taxation policies have regularly contributed to worsening income inequality, with the bulk of tax and revenue measures enacted from the Great Recession of 2009 to the present day (2021) also primarily benefitting wealthy […]

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Georgia Revenue Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

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Georgia Revenue Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

Introduction Georgia plans to spend $27.3 billion in state money raised through taxes and fees for the 2022 fiscal year. The budget maintains nearly $850 million in cuts from FY 2020 levels, a reduction equivalent to cutting approximately 4 percent of General Funds from the budget. Although lawmakers restored about half of the previous year’s […]

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Budget and Taxes Budget Primer

Georgia Budget Trends Primer for State Fiscal Year 2022

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

Budget Trends The $27.3 billion state budget signed into law by Gov. Kemp for FY 2022, which started July 1, 2021, represents an $849 million decrease in state spending from the state’s 2020 budget that was enacted two years prior—that is, compared to pre-pandemic levels—without adjusting for changes in population and inflation. The FY 2022 […]

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Sine Die: Overview of Georgia’s 2022 Fiscal Year Budget

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Sine Die: Overview of Georgia’s 2022 Fiscal Year Budget

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    Bolstered by billions of dollars in unprecedented support from the federal government, Georgia lawmakers enacted a state budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (HB 81) that maintains nearly $850 million in cuts from FY 2020 levels (HB 31), a reduction equivalent to cutting approximately 4 percent of General Funds from the budget.[1] Due […]

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Georgia Can Maximize Federal Aid

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Georgia Can Maximize Federal Aid

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    The federal government passed a relief package that will send $4.7 billion in direct funding to Georgia. In addition to the state aid, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) extends the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation to September 6 of 2021, expands the federal Earned Income Tax Credit for […]

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Costly Corporate Tax Break Package Would Give Millions to Wealthy Corporations | Bill Analysis: House Bill 587 (LC 43 1970S)

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Costly Corporate Tax Break Package Would Give Millions to Wealthy Corporations | Bill Analysis: House Bill 587 (LC 43 1970S)

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    This bill analysis was co-authored by Danny Kanso, tax and budget senior policy analyst and Dustin Truong, 2021 legislative intern. Key Takeaways: House Bill 587 includes a program referred to nationally as CAPCO but dubbed the Georgia Agribusiness and Rural Jobs Act (GARJA) credit. The bill would authorize a second round of $100 […]

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Georgia Tax Breaks Don’t Deliver

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Georgia Tax Breaks Don’t Deliver

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    This policy report is coauthored by Danny Kanso, Senior Tax & Budget Policy Analyst & Alex Camardelle, Senior Economic Mobility Policy Analyst Key Takeaways Georgia collects no corporate income tax revenue from the vast majority of businesses. Due to the state’s lack of transparency when it comes to evaluating major subsidy programs, it […]

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Georgia Needs a Three-Pronged Approach to Funding Long-Term COVID Relief

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Georgia Needs a Three-Pronged Approach to Funding Long-Term COVID Relief

/ by Daniel Kanso, PhD

    Compared to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget, which was approved before the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia’s FY 2022 budget, which takes effect July 1, 2021, includes $1.2 billion in continued budget cuts due to a state revenue shortfall caused by the pandemic. At a time when millions of families are experiencing heightened needs due […]

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