{"id":16759,"date":"2013-04-05T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:27:14","slug":"state-tax-revenue-continued-to-beat-forecasts-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/04\/05\/state-tax-revenue-continued-to-beat-forecasts-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"State Tax Revenue Continued To Beat Forecasts In March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dfm.idaho.gov\/Publications\/EAB\/GFRR\/GFRR2013\/GFRevenueReport_April2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Division of Financial Management reports<\/a> revenue collections for the month of March were 4.4 percent above predictions.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly general fund monitor is a short-term indicator of the tax collections coming into the state, which are used to budget for and fund state programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_17\" data-canvas-width=\"156.5664\">Idaho\u2019s General Fund increased by $138.1 million in March 2013, which is $5.8 million (4.4%) more than the forecasted $132.3 million.<!--more--> March marks the third consecutive month collections have exceeded expectations. As a result of this month\u2019s stronger-than-anticipated collections, fiscal year-to-date General Fund revenues continue to exceed the forecast. Specifically, General Fund revenue for the current fiscal year through March 2013 is $1,835.9 million, which is 1.2% more than the projected $1,813.3 million. &#8211; Division of Financial Management<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_17\" data-canvas-width=\"156.5664\">\n<div id=\"attachment_16760\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/04\/March-Revenue-.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16760\" title=\"March Revenue\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/04\/March-Revenue--620x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/04\/March-Revenue--620x194.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/04\/March-Revenue--300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/04\/March-Revenue-.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Division of Financial Management \/ State of Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_17\" data-canvas-width=\"156.5664\">The Division reports this is the third month in a row where tax collections beat the forecast. However, the picture could start to change later this spring as annual state tax refunds are sent out.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_17\" data-canvas-width=\"156.5664\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-font-name=\"g_font_p0_17\" data-canvas-width=\"156.5664\">You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfm.idaho.gov\/Publications\/EAB\/GFRR\/GFRR2013\/GFRevenueReport_April2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Financial Management reports revenue collections for the month of March were 4.4 percent above predictions. The monthly general fund monitor is a short-term indicator of the tax collections coming into the state, which are used to budget for and fund state programs. Idaho\u2019s General Fund increased by $138.1 million in March 2013, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":16760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[56,55],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16765,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions\/16765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}