An agency official said the St. Louis County public-safety budget is roughly $40 million short, that 85% of the public safety general revenue is salaries, and that cutting police presence would be undesirable and politically risky.

The authority approved an RDM adjustment for United Illuminating for Sept. 1, 2026–Apr. 30, 2027 to recover projected 2026 revenue-requirement expenses, directed inclusion and reconciliation of executive compensation in the RAM, and ordered UI to address prudence concerns for certain clean-energy project capitalization in next year’s RAM proceeding.

County leaders said sales-tax receipts have shifted online and argued that a use tax (which failed previously) or other new revenue is needed to sustain police pay increases, while acknowledging rolling back property tax would be politically difficult.

A city impact report on an initiative to repeal the admissions-tax cap and adopt a tiered rate structure projected $47 million'$50 million in annual revenue and urged restoring tiered rates by venue capacity; the council received and filed the report after a staff presentation.

County staff reported that the Association of Counties identified county revenue impacts from Senate Bill 6346, public defense funding, liability reform, jail modernization grants, clean-energy sales-tax rebate impacts and short-term rental taxation as top priorities for 2027–28; staff said the items will guide state advocacy but no new county policy was adopted at the May 20 meeting.

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House Bill 2225 proposes the Oklahoma Revenue and Taxation Act effective November 1, 2025.

India must reform fiscal equity within the Constitution — not fracture its sovereignty by devolving income tax to the states.

Despite devolution promises, provinces in Pakistan have failed to reform property taxation, deepening fiscal imbalance and straining federal resources

Senator Kathy Giesel and Senator Bill Wilakowski presented SB 227 (version G), a multi‑part revenue bill proposing a bracketed education tax, an S‑corporation tax, a 15¢ per barrel Dalton Highway surcharge, a highly digitized business apportionment change, and a proposed 17.5% gross oil production tax; the committee took no vote and set the bill aside for further analysis and fiscal modeling.

The Nebraska Legislature advanced LB901, a revenue-package shell that combines four bills to raise an estimated $26 million by rolling back a limited data-center exemption, expanding Department of Revenue fee and collection authority, increasing taxes and regulation for 'games of skill' devices, and creating $3 million in refundable, transferable tax credits for domestic-violence service providers.

Tax Commissioner James Kam told the Appropriations Committee that structural changes and pending bills (LB 890, LB 1021, LB 1110) would move more Department of Revenue activity to cash‑funding, potentially freeing about $30 million to the general fund in FY2627; he also described a reduction in force that closed the Scottsbluff office and early signs of maintained collections.

City staff told the Feb. 28 special work session that Hayward faces a roughly $32.5 million FY2026–27 general‑fund gap and recommended a blended approach of conservative revenue assumptions, limited one‑time funding, property sales and seeking labor concessions while testing a business‑license tax with voter polling.

At a Jan. 6 Hayward City Council work session, staff outlined steps that balanced the 2025–26 budget but left no contingency and flagged a large reserve drawdown; councilmembers and residents debated revenue options including a possible modernized business license tax ahead of a Feb. 28 retreat.

City staff presented options to close a projected $8–$13 million general‑fund shortfall, modeling changes to the business license tax, a parcel tax, sales/transaction tax, transient occupancy tax and utility user tax. Council gave preliminary direction to prioritize business license modernization (variable gross‑receipts tiers) and a residential‑or

Committee staff circulated a draft letter to House Appropriations warning of a structural shortfall in the transportation fund, urging partial reallocation of purchase-and-use tax revenue and continued work on new revenue sources; members debated asking for $50 million instead of the governor’s $10 million step-down proposal.

HB1579, to form a committee to study revenue options for additional education spending, was referred to interim study 18–0; proponents argued the root problem is insufficient revenue, noting property taxpayers pay about 72% of district costs while the state contributes about 21%.

Council highlights toll increases as necessary solution for regional project funding issues.

Legislators discuss balancing the budget while seeking revenue suggestions from witnesses.