Lacking any guidance from Congress on the Coronavirus Relief Fund question, budget decisions will continue to be made in a fog of uncertainty. It underscores the need for even more…
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that state Fiscal Research staffers debunk media reports claiming that 2013 tax cuts led to a budget shortfall for North Carolina. There is…
Last week Raleigh’s WRAL published an article about the projected revenues from last years tax reform citing a memo sent from the legislative fiscal research staff to a state senator. …
…. I say look at the data on what North Carolina’s refundable film tax credit doesn’t deliver. North Carolina loses 54 cents for every dollar it allocates to the state…
For those not following the issue, N.C. State professor Robert Handfield produced a study for the Motion Picture Association of America claiming that state film incentives produced significant benefits for…
A memorandum to Rep. Rick Catlin (R-New Hanover) prepared yesterday by Patrick McHugh and Barry Boardman of the Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly gave a preliminary…
View in your browser. With North Carolina’s film production tax credits set to expire at the end of this calendar year, the industry is intent on demonstrating that the incentive…
All candidates have filed, and now it’s time for North Carolina office seekers to make their pitches to voters who will head to the polls in May and November. John…
When President Obama promised North Carolinians recently that his jobs bill would create 13,000 new public-sector jobs in this state, he left out the inconvenient fact that the jobs would…
The state’s budget writers don’t know which situation they’ll face as they start tweaking the state’s next $20 billion spending plan. Through the first half of the year, the state…