State Budget
Report: Alabama’s Internet sales taxes benefitting rural counties, costing cities
Alabama’s Internet sales taxes have created winners and losers, according to a report released Monday from the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA). The report said that the state’s 8% tax on online goods, or the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT), has benefitted rural counties with little commercial activity, but reduced revenues to communities […]
Alabama House approves General Fund budget with 2% state employee pay raise
The Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday unanimously approved the General Fund budget for next year and a bill increasing spending for other agencies. The House voted 105-0 for HB 124, sponsored by Ways and Means General Fund Chairman Rex Reynolds, R-Huntsville, which provides $3 billion to the General Fund budget that provides broad funding increases […]
House committee approves General Fund budget
The House Ways and Means General Fund committee Wednesday approved a $3 billion General Fund budget that would provide broad funding increases for most state agencies. HB 124, sponsored by Chairman Rex Reynolds, R-Huntsville, is a “good, sound budget for Alabama,” he said. The total increase of about $15 million from the Gov. Kay Ivey’s […]