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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Based on the real monthly updates on the Florida state and county unemployment rates in 2020, we estimated each county’ unemployment rate in 2021 and 2022 to forecast the revenue impact for FY 2022 and FY 2023. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Sales Taxes from Non-Residents

Death and Taxes

Understanding the economic impacts of commuters, tourists, and college students on sales tax bases can thus guide practitioners as they make decisions related to financial management. The pandemic reached North Carolina in March 2020, and a statewide stay-at-home order was passed.

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WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, CONTEXT IS KING

Barrett & Greene

Back in 2020, then President Donald Trump proclaimed that “The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala or even Afghanistan.” For example, when the Pew Charitable Trusts examined employment rates last summer , it compared first quarter 2023 numbers with those from early 2020.