March 2024 Archive
A Hare Above: Spring Revenues Nearly Identical to 2023
Late last week, the Tax Commission released their revenue summary report, detailing collections through eight months of the Fiscal Year (FY). As of March 7th, revenue to all sources grew 0.2%, or $22.8 million, over FY 2023. The March Revenue Snapshot, produced by the Legislative Fiscal Analyst and the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, […]
Good GRAMA: Evaluating the State Records Committee Appeal Process
The Legislative Fiscal Analyst’s Performance and Operations Team recently published two new efficiency evaluations of state agency programs: Last December, we highlighted some of the operations methodologies that the team uses for process improvement. In this post, we describe how various methodologies relate to each of the recommendations made to the State Records Committee for […]
The Buck $tops Here: A Budget Summary of the 65th Legislature
The Utah Legislature concluded the 2024 General Session with an operating and capital budget of $29.4 billion for fiscal year 2025. The budget includes $12.9 billion from the sales-taxed backed General Fund and the Income Tax Fund. Top legislative budget priorities included state fund investments in: As required by the Utah Constitution, legislators balanced the […]