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Tax department flags missed salary adjustment, IT costs and property-tax credit funding in budget hearing
Summary
Officials for the tax commissioner's office told the House appropriations subcommittee the governor's base omitted a 4% "cost to continue" salary adjustment, and they detailed IT rate increases, server needs and the funding posture for homestead and disabled-veteran property-tax credits while the committee deliberated on House Bill 1006.
Brian Croches, tax commissioner, and Sherry Anderson, the office's chief fiscal officer, told the House Appropriations — Government Operations Division that their base budget did not reflect a 4% cost-to-continue salary adjustment set for July 1, 2024 and that correcting that omission would add about $3,162,000 (with fringe) to the next biennium.
"The cost to continue ... the 4% increase ... was not included in our budget base that came out from OMB," Anderson said, and she told the committee the agency estimated that missing cost at about $3,162,000. Anderson also said a separate line item for NDIT (state IT) cost increases totals roughly $358,321 on the tax department's worksheet and that an additional roughly $68,000 would be…
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