By:
David Blatt
July 29, 2009 // Updated: August 21, 2025
We have not yet reached the end of the first month of the new fiscal year but already Treasurer Scott Meacham has publicly predicted that state General Revenue collections will fall far enough short of the forecast to trigger an…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 21, 2009 // Updated: August 21, 2025
Last week, State Treasurer Scott Meacham unveiled the the state revenue report for June, 2009. Revenue was below the previous year, for both the last month and the fiscal year as a whole, as we reported earlier.
It’s natural to…
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By:
David Blatt
July 15, 2009 // Updated: August 21, 2025
Five years after voters approved a State Question increasing the tax on tobacco, there is good news to report: over the course of the recently completed fiscal year (FY ’09), tobacco sales in Oklahoma declined by 7.2 percent over the…
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By:
David Blatt
July 14, 2009 // Updated: August 21, 2025
Treasurer Scott Meacham today released revenue collections for the final month of the just-completed fiscal year, FY ’09. As was widely expected, the numbers were dismal: June General Revenue (GR) collections came in 30.1 percent below last year and 26.2…
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This spreadsheet provides annual information on Oklahoma tobacco taxes since passage of SQ 713 including:
Total stamp sales by tribal and non-tribal retailers;
Total revenues from tribal and non-tribal sales;
Annual allocation of revenues by funding purpose.…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 6, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
We’re getting closer to launching the OK Policy Online Guide to Oklahoma Budget and Taxes, a comprehensive resource for understanding state and local government finance in Oklahoma. Most of the guide is factual in nature–how we collect tax dollars, how…
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As we’ve discussed in various blog posts and issue briefs, most state agencies received basically flat funding or were dealt budget cuts of 5 to 7 percent for the new fiscal year beginning July 1st, even as inflation leads to…
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By:
Paul Shinn
June 29, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
OK Policy is pleased to launch a new monthly Stimulus Update publication. Each month we will take a quick look at one set of federal stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA) programs. Each issue includes a short review…
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The Tulsa World ran our op-ed laying out the budget challenges that state agencies are now beginning to confront as the new fiscal year approaches:
We won’t know until next June the full impact on public services or our health…
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There has been some discussion in recent days about the performance of the Oklahoma State Lottery, including this editorial from The Oklahoman, after the Lottery Commission adopted a budget for FY ’10 that projects $66.6 million in revenues for education…
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