N.H. Revenues Projected At $59 Million Below Gov. Sununu's Budget Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee projected state tax revenues for the next biennium to be nearly $59 million below what Gov. Sununu presented in his budget plan last month.
Rep. Norman Major, who chairs that committee, says the gap comes from Sununu's decision to include one-time money in his calculations, as well as a difference in business tax projections.
House Finance Chairman Neal Kurk says this will make House budget writers' job a little more difficult.
“We are going to have to eliminate some programs, perhaps that the Governor might have proposed that have not started yet and we might have to fund existing programs at lower levels in order to present that balanced budget,” Kurk said Thursday morning.
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