Budget Briefing: State Tax Collections Up Despite Poor Energy Revenue

Oklahoma’s Economy Continues to do Well Despite Low Performance from Energy Sector – “Collections from the gross production tax on oil and natural gas remained well below previous-year totals, Miller said. They were down almost 40 percent in September, but that is an improvement from their low in August of being down 54 percent compared with the same month a year ago.” NewsOK.com

New Website Shows Tobacco Contributions to Oklahoma Lawmakers – “Since 2006, state legislators now in office have accepted $242,719 in campaign contributions, meals and other gifts from tobacco lobbyists and tobacco company political action committees, according to the website. Nine representatives and 11 senators have accepted at least $3,000.” NewsOK.com

County Commissioner: Raising Rent Fair if Airport Tenants Get Vision2 Funding – Tulsa County Commissioner Fred “Perry said he is not proposing that the rent increases be enough to pay back the Vision2 investment but that the tenants pay more rent than they currently do.” Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20121002_16_A1_CUTLIN816188&rss_lnk=1″ Tulsa World