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Pandemic Impacts Take Shape as Fiscal Year Comes to a Close

The Utah Tax Commission released its TC-23 Revenue Summary Wednesday, June 17th, 2020, detailing the actual collections through 11 months of Fiscal Year 2020. As...
June 17, 2020

Income and Fuel Taxes Begin to Show Pandemic Effects

On Tuesday, May 12th, the Tax Commission released their TC-23 Revenue Summary Report for the month of May. Readers may recall that the April TC-23...
May 13, 2020

Collections Hold Steady as the Legislature Prepares to Weather the Storm

The April TC-23 report released by the Tax Commission reports revenue collections to the General, Education, and Transportation Funds are all on target with consensus...
April 16, 2020

Revenues Still On-track, but Don’t Yet Reflect Pandemic’s Impact

Through the end of February, revenues from all taxes were on target, representing an increase of $571 million over FY 2019. Sales and use tax...
April 2, 2020

Sales Tax Growth Improving, Not Enough to Close Gap in Education and General Funds

On Thursday (Feb. 20th), the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget and the Legislative Fiscal Analyst released their updated 2020 Consensus Revenue Estimates. These estimates,...
February 20, 2020

Revenue Collections in-line with Latest Estimates

First Half of FY 2020 in the Books Reports for December and January show both General and Education Fund revenues coming in on-target, with collections...
February 3, 2020

Income Tax Continues to Outpace State Sales Tax through Q1

State Revenue Growth Higher than February Projections In the first quarter of the Fiscal Year, income tax grew 11.3% which represented a $135 million dollar...
December 9, 2019

Revenue Surplus Sets the Stage for Tax Reform

The year-end numbers are in In Fiscal Year 2019, the revenue surplus to the education fund was $134 million. After adjustments (such as putting money...
October 28, 2019

Strong Income Taxes Bail-out Sales Tax Through 12 Months of FY19

Despite a probable deficit in the General Fund, the Utah State Tax Commission's latest report on revenue collections for twelve months of fiscal year 2019...
July 18, 2019

Strong Income Tax Lifts State Revenue Collections Despite Declining Growth Rates

Combined General and Education Fund revenue collections for the current fiscal year (2019) totaled $6.9 billion through the first eleven months. That represents year-over-year growth...
June 17, 2019

Local Governments Address Long-Term Fiscal Stability Amid Population Growth

Utah’s population grew nearly 15% this decade, ranking No. 1 in the nation.1 By 2060, Utah’s population is projected to nearly double. The dramatic growth...
June 12, 2019

Strong Final Payments Highlight April

Earlier this week, the Tax Commission released the TC-23 report for the month of April. Exceeding the current revenue target of 5.7%, General and Education...
May 17, 2019