Payroll-tax receipts generally hold up much better in recessions than do income taxes, but job losses have been so severe that the CBO expects them to decline slightly from 2008 .
Secretary Mellon had predicted that the surplus of receipts over expenditures would be about $405,000,000.
In 2000 receipts totaled $119 billion, which equals $143 million in 2007 dollars.
Voters will decide on gross receipts tax increase SILVER CITY — Voters will decide if they want to approve a quarter of a percent increase in gross receipts tax, which would be used to fund a variety of community projects, after the Grant County Commission approved a resolution at its Thursday meeting calling for a special mail-in election on the measure.
June 14, 2013 - Silver City Sun-News
Receipts Beat Estimates Just this week, the state controller’s office said monthly cash receipts beat estimates by 12.4 percent, or nearly $800 million. And advocates said they would seek more money for the courts if revenues continue to beat projections.
June 12, 2013 - Metropolitan News-Enterprise