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Special Session Tax and School-Finance Package Creates $10.5 Billion Deficit

  

Author:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

May 15, 2006

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The fiscal notes for the tax and school-finance bills passed during the special session reveal a gap of $10.5 billion between the expected costs of HB 1 and anticipated revenues from HB 3, 4, and 5 in 2008-09. This deficit will place tremendous pressure on the next state budget, which could cause severe budget cutbacks, an increase in the state sales tax or other state taxes, an expansion of gambling as a source of revenue, or all of the above.