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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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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: 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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Fact Sheet: Deep Cuts are NOT Georgia's Only Option
Using a more balanced approach to budgeting would reduce the cuts, such as budgeting additional revenues through increasing the cigarette tax,enacting a new top income tax rate, improving
tax collections, suspending or ending tax breaks, increasing fees, and closing corporate loopholes. Without new
revenues, Georgia faces an additional $2.6 billion
deficit in FY 2012, according to the governor.
Posted:
2/12/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes,
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Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Georgia's Rainy Day Fund is Key to Long-Term Budget Stability
Over the next three to five years, the state needs between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in surpluses to rebuild the Revenue Shortfall Reserve (RSR). In order to do so, lawmakers should take a balanced approach to state budgeting that includes additional revenues.
Posted:
2/12/2010
Category:
Budget, Taxes
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Show Us the Money: Full Disclosure Needed on Tax Breaks
As Georgia decides how to respond to the current fiscal crisis, all sources of spending must be on the table.
Posted:
11/1/2004
Category:
Budget, Taxes,
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Setting the Record Straight: State Employment in Georgia
Posted:
1/24/2005
Category:
Budget
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FY 2006 Budget as Adopted by General Assembly
Posted:
4/8/2005
Category:
Budget
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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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State Employment: The Cost of Turnover
This report highlights the cost of turnover in state government.
Posted:
1/23/2006
Category:
Budget
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FY 2007 Budget as Adopted by General Assembly
Posted:
4/7/2006
Category:
Budget
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Georgia's Independent Living Program: How Georgia Can Prepare Foster Youth for Productive Lives
This report provides a comprehensive review of the Independent Living Program (ILP) policies and practices.
Posted:
6/12/2006
Category:
Budget
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Building Georgia's Revenue Shortfall Reserve to a Responsible Level
This report explains the purpose of the Revenue Shortfall Reserve (RSR), specifics to Georgia's RSR, lessons learned from recent recessions, and recommendations for building Georgia's RSR to a responsible level.
Posted:
6/19/2007
Category:
Budget
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FY 2008 Budget as Signed by Governor
Posted:
6/20/2007
Category:
Budget
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Fact Sheet: Budget and Tax Basics
Posted:
1/9/2008
Category:
Taxes, Budget
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Analysis Brief of FY 2010 House Budget
Analysis and summary of HB 119, the FY 2010 budget passed by House. Highlights use of ARRA funds, deficit in Medicaid, and solutions for budget shortfalls.
Posted:
3/23/2009
Category:
Budget
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Analysis of the FY 2010 Budget: Closing One Year’s Shortfall and Planning for Another, Update
FY 2010 budget is expected to be short $800 million. Without the availability of reserve funds Governor Perdue may need to lower the revenue estimate by as much as $1 billion. the state will go into FY 2011 facing a deficit of more than $1.5 billion. To avoid crippling cuts over the next two years, lawmakers need to take a balanced approach to budgeting. The development of a fair and adequate tax system should be a crucial strategy to bring the state budget into long-term balance.
Posted:
7/13/2009
Category:
Budget, Taxes,
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Balancing the State Budget With Federal Stimulus Funds
Georgia is utilizing $1.44 billion in federal ARRA funds this year, despite drastic cuts and using almost all reserve funds. It also has the #8th worst deficit in the nation, yet it is one of the few states that did not raise revenues strategically; it only cut. These funds, which have saved or created thousands of jobs, are set to expire. Enhanced Medicaid funding also is, the report recommends phasing it out instead.
Posted:
12/7/2009
Category:
Budget, Taxes, Recovery Act
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Brief: Overview of Senate Proposed FY 2010 Budget (HB 119)
The Senate version of the FY 2010 budget contains approximately $1.6 billion in cuts to state agencies. The Senate uses $1.35 billion in federal stimulus funds and over $400 million in vaious reserve funds to help avoid further budget cuts.
Posted:
4/1/2009
Category:
Budget
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Brief: Proposed Budget Shortfalls for Child Care and Parent Services (CAPS)
The governor's, Senate’s, and House of Representatives’ budgets all fall short of reducing or eliminating children on the CAPS waiting list, despite available ARRA funds. The Senate and House budgets fund a new DHR program for child care which has no public details, and remove or reduce TANF funds from the CAPS budget.
Posted:
3/31/2009
Category:
Budget, Family Economic Security
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Building Georgia's Revenue Shortfall Reserve to a Responsible Level
This report explains the purpose of the Revenue Shortfall Reserve (RSR), specifics to Georgia's RSR, lessons learned from recent recessions, and recommendations for building Georgia's RSR to a responsible level.
Posted:
6/19/2007
Category:
Budget
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Deficit Reduction Step Three: State Agency Budget Proposals
This report summarizes the budget reduction proposals of the Department of Education, Board of Regents, Department of Human Resources, and Department of Community Health.
Posted:
9/15/2008
Category:
Budget
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Deficit Reduction Step Two: Bringing Other Voices into the Planning Process
This report provides a more detailed look at what six, eight, and ten percent cuts will look like for state agencies and calls for a balanced approach to deficit reduction - an approach that prioritizes cuts and includes revenue enhancements.
Posted:
8/11/2008
Category:
Budget
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Fact Sheet: Balanced Approach to Balancing the Budget
Relying on budget cuts, and not taking a balanced approach, weakens an already struggling economy and leaves Georgians without essential services at a time when they are needed most.
Posted:
9/10/2009
Category:
Budget,
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Fact Sheet: Budget and Tax Basics
Posted:
1/9/2008
Category:
Taxes, Budget
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