Taxes and Budget

General Assistance directive is penny wise, pound foolish

This June, Governor LePage directed municipalities to stop giving General Assistance funds to undocumented immigrants or risk losing state funding of General Assistance. While LePage may tout […]

Katherine Churchill

Posted July 25, 2014

Tags Immigration, Local

Property tax relief falls short in 2013, major policy changes still needed

The amount of property tax relief Maine residents claimed under a new state tax credit will fall $9-12 million short of the $34 million forecast, according to […]

Joel Johnson

Posted June 27, 2014

Tags Property Tax, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

LePage’s Erroneous Bonds Policy Seriously Threatens Maine Hospital Finances

Last week, the (Lewiston) Sun Journal reported that the LePage Administration’s anti-bonding policies are forcing MaineGeneral Medical Center to pay $42 million more in interest on loans […]

Jody Harris

Posted June 18, 2014

Tags Bonds, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

State Income Tax Revenue Falls as Bill for 2011 Income Tax Cuts Comes Due

Four years after Maine Revenue Services (MRS) and the Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal office put a $166 million price tag on Governor LePage’s income tax cut, an enormous […]

Joel Johnson

Posted June 11, 2014

Tags Budget, Revenue, Taxes

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Despite the historic opportunity offered by the federal funds available to expand Medicaid to cover Maine’s uninsured, millions of dollars earmarked for our state have been lost […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 4, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

Taxes Have Little Effect on People’s Decisions about What State to Live In

A lengthy and exhaustive new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities confirms what reality-based analysts have known for a long time: state taxes do […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 8, 2014

Tags Taxes

Taxes and Budget

What you should know about the Cutler property tax relief plan

Today, Eliot Cutler released a plan for providing property tax relief to Maine residents. The center piece is a dramatic increase in Maine’s homestead exemption program, elimination […]

Garrett Martin

Posted April 15, 2014

Tags Homestead Exemption, Municipal Revenue Sharing, Property Tax

Taxes and Budget

Testimony at Hearing on Supplemental Budget Proposals for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

I applaud your efforts to address Maine’s current budget challenges and your willingness to put a range of ideas on the table. Proposed Alternatives Cuts to K-12 […]

MECEP

Posted March 5, 2014

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1751 An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Residents

As economists Michael Allen and Dick Woodbury wrote in their 2006 evaluation of Maine’s “Circuit Breaker” property tax relief program, “[the circuit breaker] does more than any […]

MECEP

Posted February 19, 2014

Tags Property Tax, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Good news, bad news

Maine state government ranked above average for its sound budgeting practices in a report released yesterday by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. But, while Maine […]

Jody Harris

Posted February 5, 2014

Tags Budget, Taxes

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General Assistance directive is penny wise, pound foolish

Property tax relief falls short in 2013, major policy changes still needed

LePage’s Erroneous Bonds Policy Seriously Threatens Maine Hospital Finances

State Income Tax Revenue Falls as Bill for 2011 Income Tax Cuts Comes Due

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Taxes Have Little Effect on People’s Decisions about What State to Live In

What you should know about the Cutler property tax relief plan

Testimony at Hearing on Supplemental Budget Proposals for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1751 An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Residents

Good news, bad news