On January 24th, the Healey administration filed its budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The $58.13 billion spending plan includes $1.3 billion in proposed spending supported by income surtax revenues, an increase of $300 million over the $1...

On January 24th, the Healey administration filed its budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The $58.13 billion spending plan included critical investments in child care, healthcare, and transportation; as well as sizeable increases in support for...

Earlier today, the Healey-Driscoll administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget proposal. The $58.13 billion spending plan includes critical investments in childcare, education, and transportation; and $1.3 billion in spending supported...

Earlier this week, the Healey administration announced a $1 billion tax revenue shortfall for FY 2024, downgrading the revenue benchmark from $40.41 billion to $39.41 billion. They also released a plan to solve the shortfall which includes...

On January 8th, budget leaders from the House, Senate, and Administration announced a $40.202 billion consensus tax revenue figure for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget, excluding surtax revenue. Budget writers expect tax revenues to grow by $792...

The Healey Administration announced a $1 billion revenue shortfall, attributable to below benchmark revenue collections to date.The FY 2024 revenue benchmark has been downgraded to $39.410 billion.After accounting for the shortfall and the impacts of...

On December 4th, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF), along with the Department of Revenue (DOR) and other economic experts participated in the annual Consensus Revenue Hearing. The hearing offers administration and legislative budget...

Tax revenues for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 and FY 2025 settle into a post-COVID pattern of lower growth as the economy slows, impacts from migration and an aging population emerge (Appendix A), and tax reforms take effect. Excluding revenues related to...

Governor Healey filed her administration’s FY 2023 closeout supplemental budget on September 13th, and versions of the spending bill were passed by the House and Senate on November 8th and 14th, respectively. While the House and Senate bills largely...

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget was signed into law on August 9th, but four months into the new fiscal year, work remains for administrative and legislative budget writers to close the books on FY 2023. This work – typically marked by the passage of...