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Proposed Federal Health Bill Is Potential 10-year, $4 Billion Drain on Georgia Treasury

Georgia stands to lose $4 billion in federal Medicaid funding over ten years if the proposed American Health ...
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Reshuffling Income Tax Rates is a Faulty Economic Formula

State legislators are considering a package of income tax changes in the final days of the 2017 session ...
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Private School Scholarship Savings Claims Deserve Skepticism

State lawmakers are considering a big expansion of the private school scholarship tax credit program. House Bill 217 ...
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Lawmakers Debating Big Bucks after Several Tax Bills Pass House

Adding Up the Fiscal Notes: Crossover Day 2017 Each year, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute examines tax ...
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Misguided March to Expand Tax Credits for Private School Scholarships

The Georgia Senate is considering a plan to expand the state’s private school scholarship tax credit program after ...
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Targeted Fix to Income Tax Package Can Deliver Georgians a Win

Analysis of potential revision to House Bill 329 (LC 43 0601S) Georgia lawmakers are considering a large income ...
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Planned Medicaid Changes Put State Health System at Risk

Congressional proposals to remake the federal Medicaid funding system into one based on block grants or one that ...
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Fact Sheet: Tax Bill Offers Earned Income Tax Credit Upside, Flat Tax Downside

Analysis of Substitute Version of House Bill 329 (LC 43 0601S) Updated March 8, 2017 Georgia lawmakers are ...
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Ballooning Tax Credit for Private School Scholarships

Bill Analysis: House Bill 217 (LC 34 5120S) State lawmakers are considering a bill that proposes to swell ...
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Education Savings Accounts Carry Huge Price Tag

Fact Sheet: Senate Bill 68 (LC 33 6784) Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill to allow parents to ...
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Income Tax Bill Offers Earned Income Tax Credit Upside, Flat Tax Downside

Bill Analysis: House Bill 329 (LC 43 0564) – Updated February 27, 2017 Members of the Georgia House ...
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Immigrant ID Bills Amount to $1 Million in Waste

One Senate bill and two House bills threaten to waste more than $1 million in state taxpayer dollars ...

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