Budget & Tax

Senate Budget Increases Rainy Day Fund Paid for by Reducing Spending, Withholds Teacher Pension Contributions Until Benefit Cuts Are Made

The Senate budget increases funding for the Rainy Day Fund by reducing funding for pension contributions for health departments and...

Analysis

Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Inadequate Rainy Day Fund Heightens Need for Federal Aid and More State Revenue

States set aside rainy day funds to draw on when economic downturns or crises hit. Governor Beshear may well need to tap the state’s rainy day fund to deal with...

Analysis

Three Steps to Passing a Better Budget for Kentucky

The budget passed by the House mostly avoids another round of damaging cuts to programs and services that have been common since the Great Recession (with a few important exceptions,...

Analysis

A Move from Local Occupational Taxes to Sales Taxes Would Be a Regressive Tax Shift

Some proponents of HB 475, a constitutional amendment to expand revenue options for local governments, say it will result in localities moving away from occupational taxes and towards sales taxes...

Analysis

Bipartisan Interest in Tax Break Accountability

The lack of revenue with which legislators are creating the next biennial budget is an urgent reminder of the need to clean up the tax breaks that limit the amount...

Report

House Budget Makes Adjustments Including to Employee Raises, Social Workers and Rainy Day Fund and Contains No New Revenue

The House budget plan includes many of the same priorities that the governor proposed, but contains a different emphasis in a variety of areas. Compared to the governor’s budget, the...

Report

Senate Budget Increases Rainy Day Fund Paid for by Reducing Spending, Withholds Teacher Pension Contributions Until Benefit Cuts Are Made

Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Inadequate Rainy Day Fund Heightens Need for Federal Aid and More State Revenue

Three Steps to Passing a Better Budget for Kentucky

A Move from Local Occupational Taxes to Sales Taxes Would Be a Regressive Tax Shift

Bipartisan Interest in Tax Break Accountability

House Budget Makes Adjustments Including to Employee Raises, Social Workers and Rainy Day Fund and Contains No New Revenue

Revenue Options That Strengthen the Commonwealth

House Bill 1 Still Focuses on Punitive Measures that Take Assistance Away

House Bill 413 Creates Greater Accountability and Transparency for Tax Expenditures

SB 1 Will Worsen Racial Disparities in Kentucky

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