MTF's Annual Meeting will be held this year on Wednesday, October 28, from 3:45 - 5:00 pm. This will be a virtual meeting.  Our special guest will be Speaker Robert DeLeo. Click here to register. ...

MTF's Annual Meeting will be held this year on Wednesday, October 28, from 3:45 - 5:00 pm.  This will be a virtual meeting.  Our special guest will be Speaker Robert DeLeo. Click here to register. ...

This “kitchen cabinet” of senior tax professionals meets quarterly and helps MTF formulate its tax policy priorities. It also shapes the Commonwealth’s tax agenda by providing important feedback and insight on pending tax proposals. An invitation...

Driven by operating costs that were already growing and the pandemic’s deep impacts on revenues, a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (hereinafter the MBTA or the T) operating budget that was in balance in FY 19 is now moving backward toward a...

Even then, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation projected the state’s tax collections in fiscal year 2021 could fall $6 billion short of earlier estimates. ...

The third big question is how to pay for everything. The Mass Taxpayers Foundation forecasts a $6 billion loss in state revenue in FY 2021, which starts July 1. This gigantic shortfall greatly reduces the chances of new revenue for schools from the...

According to one watchdog, the state budget won’t weather it well. The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation projected in a report released Thursday that it could take five years for state revenues to exceed prepandemic levels. Even that scenario...

The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation has projected the state will not be able to collect close to $6 billion in revenue. “This is going to have a dramatic impact on local revenues,” said Fitzgerald. “Soaring unemployment and the expectation...

The hopes for a sharp and immediate rebound from the COVID-19 shutdown in Massachusetts are no longer realistic, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which is now predicting a long and slow climb that will strain state resources....

Budget watchdogs dashed hopes for a quick recovery from the economic havoc wrought — seemingly overnight — by the coronavirus pandemic, warning the devastation of plummeting tax revenues and widespread unemployment could leave a red mark on state and...