{"id":2768,"date":"2011-12-14T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2011-12-14T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:32:37","slug":"flat-budget-won%e2%80%99t-budge-despite-oil-tax-%e2%80%98bonanza%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/12\/14\/flat-budget-won%e2%80%99t-budge-despite-oil-tax-%e2%80%98bonanza%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Budget Won\u2019t Budge Despite Oil Tax \u2018Bonanza\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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November's $34.8 million in oil tax revenue was a "bonanza" for Oklahoma's general revenue fund, the State Finance Director said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The AP with the synopsis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

State finance officials said a boom in Oklahoma’s oil patch is helping to boost general revenue collections more than 20 percent over the same time last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The Tulsa World<\/em>\u2019s Barbara Hoberock on the details<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

The general revenue fund received $34.8 million in oil tax revenue in November, compared to none a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/em>In a press release<\/a>, Office of State Finance Director Preston Doerflinger said the oil revenue was a \u201cbonanza\u201d for the state.<\/p>

\u201cBut collections also were strong across all major tax categories,” he said.<\/p>

Doerflinger said the positive revenue news reinforced the state\u2019s \u201congoing\u201d recovery from the recession and evidence that Oklahoma was outperforming \u201cmost other states and the nation as a whole.\u201d<\/p>

Gov. Mary Fallin welcomed the news, but said Oklahoma\u2019s recovery wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>

\u201cWe expect a flat budget for 2012,\u201d Fallin said in the OSF statement. \u201cAs such, it remains important for agencies to continue to tighten their belts and to pursue reforms and efficiencies that preserve revenue and save taxpayer dollars.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AP with the synopsis: State finance officials said a boom in Oklahoma’s oil patch is helping to boost general revenue collections more than 20 percent over the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[50,178,53,45,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}