{"id":501493,"date":"2010-04-01T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75140"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:31:25","slug":"comptroller-wyman-says-revenue-remains-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/501493","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller Wyman Says Revenue Remains Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for filing tax returns nears, State Comptroller Nancy Wyman says the state&#8217;s revenue remains flat. <\/p>\n<p>The projected 2010 budget deficit stands at $371 million after the delay of a $100 million payment to the state&#8217;s pension fund. A $47 million Medicaid savings tied to the federal stimulus program also helps. <\/p>\n<p>Wyman says the deficit is driven by weak collections in nearly all major tax categories. The two largest shortfalls are in the income tax and sales tax, she says.<\/p>\n<p>The fiscal year&#8217;s final numbers will depend on how much income tax is collected around the April 15 deadline, Wyman says. <\/p>\n<p>Wyman&#8217;s estimates are based on a $18.6 billion budget. It is about $14.5 million higher than the projection made by the Office of Policy and Management, the governor&#8217;s budget office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for filing tax returns nears, State Comptroller Nancy Wyman says the state&#8217;s revenue remains flat. The projected 2010 budget deficit stands at $371 million after the delay of a $100 million payment to the state&#8217;s pension fund. A $47 million Medicaid savings tied to the federal stimulus program also helps. Wyman says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}