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Tax Plan Needs Course Correction
+ Full Article: Tax Plan Needs Course CorrectionHouse Transportation Package Leaves out New Revenues, Could Harm Key Services Georgia needs a sustained commitment to transportation that includes new revenues or it will struggle to thrive in the 21st century. A funding proposal unveiled by House legislative leaders in January 2015 includes some reasonable reforms of Georgia’s gas tax system but could cause…
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Overview of Georgia’s 2016 Fiscal Year Human Services Budget
+ Full Article: Overview of Georgia’s 2016 Fiscal Year Human Services BudgetMore for Child Welfare, but Other Services Still in Need The governor’s $547 million human services budget proposed for the 2016 fiscal year makes strategic additions to help protect Georgia’s children and adults, but falls short of meeting the many different needs of its growing population. The spending plan promises to take a solid step…
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Overview: 2016 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 Education
+ Full Article: Overview: 2016 Fiscal Year Budget for K-12 EducationStill About $470 Million Short of Funding Formula The $8.49 billion for public schools in Governor Deal’s budget proposal shrinks some of the austerity cut in state K-12 funding. Districts that still furlough teachers and cut instructional days should get enough money to address both. However school districts will receive between $450 and $500 million…
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Tax Facts: Georgia Gives Up Billions through the Tax Code
+ Full Article: Tax Facts: Georgia Gives Up Billions through the Tax CodeGeorgia foregoes billions of dollars in state revenue each year through dozens of credits, deductions and other special preferences called tax expenditures. As with spending items in the state’s annual budget, tax expenditures are supposed to promote policy priorities that can range from economic development to support for working families. But while the budget sets…
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Billions in Tax Breaks Limit Georgia’s Spending Options
+ Full Article: Billions in Tax Breaks Limit Georgia’s Spending OptionsGeorgia will forego about $8 billion in the upcoming 2016 budget year due to dozens of credits, deductions and other tax breaks enacted over the years by state lawmakers. That’s the big news in our latest analysis of Georgia’s January 2015 tax expenditure report, released along with Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed budget. As advocates, legislators…
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Overview of Georgia’s 2016 Fiscal Year Budget
+ Full Article: Overview of Georgia’s 2016 Fiscal Year BudgetThe $21.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2016 fiscal year projects revenue growth of about 4.2 percent in the state’s main account for services such as education and public safety, the general fund. That’s $834 million more than the recently revised 2015 revenue estimate. State revenues are above pre-recession levels, but the proposed budget still…
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Now’s time for strategic fixes
+ Full Article: Now’s time for strategic fixesAs published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution For the first time in years, state leaders are sending signals before the January General Assembly that they might raise revenues to fix a challenge Georgia needs to address, in this case its neglected transportation system. A new legislative committee report outlines a menu of options to raise more…
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Mediocre Revenue Growth Won’t Fix Georgia’s Transportation, Education, Other Challenges
+ Full Article: Mediocre Revenue Growth Won’t Fix Georgia’s Transportation, Education, Other ChallengesIt was good to hear state leaders acknowledge the need to bolster the state’s finances this week at an Athens conference attended by veteran and newly elected lawmakers preparing for next year’s legislative session. A state study committee spent months to determine that Georgia’s years of neglect of its transportation system is now a detriment…
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Unaccountable Agriculture Tax Break Hurting Rural Georgia
+ Full Article: Unaccountable Agriculture Tax Break Hurting Rural GeorgiaA set of sales tax breaks passed by Georgia lawmakers in 2012 is a growing hardship for city and county governments struggling to fund schools, parks, libraries and other essential services. The problem is felt most outside of metro Atlanta, due to the larger than expected local revenue loss from a generous new tax break…
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