{"id":6402,"date":"2012-04-06T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2012-04-06T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T20:17:42","slug":"idahos-march-tax-collections-beat-forecast-by-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/06\/idahos-march-tax-collections-beat-forecast-by-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s March Tax Collections Beat Forecast By $4 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6404\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 267px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/BenFranklin100_Ballyscanlon_getty.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6404\" title=\"BenFranklin100_Ballyscanlon_getty\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/BenFranklin100_Ballyscanlon_getty-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/BenFranklin100_Ballyscanlon_getty-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/BenFranklin100_Ballyscanlon_getty.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bally Scanlon \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Idaho state revenue collections are up for the fourth month in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The Division of Financial Management <a href=\"http:\/\/dfm.idaho.gov\/Publications\/EAB\/GFRR\/GFRR2012\/GFRevenueReport_April2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> March tax collections exceeded expectations by almost $4 million, even though a large number of tax refunds are going out the door this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>That $4 million is 11 percent of the total revenue collected for the month of March.<\/p>\n<p>The Division of Financial Management&#8217;s report indicates the economy is doing better than state analysts predicted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The major contributors to this month\u2019s excess were the sales and individual income taxes. Sales tax collections of $75.5 million were $4.4 million ahead of the forecast of $71.1 million. The individual income tax topped its forecast by $3.4 million, $40.4 million versus $37.0 million.&#8221; &#8211; DFM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corporate income tax collections fell just short of projections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6403\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Idaho general fund revenue estimates and actuals.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/MarchRevReport.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6403\" title=\"MarchRevReport\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/MarchRevReport-620x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/MarchRevReport-620x196.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/MarchRevReport-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/04\/MarchRevReport.jpg 1485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Division of Financial Management<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idaho general fund revenue estimates and actuals.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho state revenue collections are up for the fourth month in a row. The Division of Financial Management reports March tax collections exceeded expectations by almost $4 million, even though a large number of tax refunds are going out the door this time of year. That $4 million is 11 percent of the total revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":6404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[56,55,134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402"}],"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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}