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Board of Tax Appeals seeks ARPA spending and two support positions to reduce backlog
Summary
The Board of Tax Appeals told the budget committee it holds $117,000 in remaining ARPA funds for modernization and requested two support positions (legal assistant, administrative assistant) to relieve staff and speed appeals processing; the committee asked for more detail on caseload and fee-fund balances.
The Committee on General Government Budget heard a presentation from the Board of Tax Appeals that the agency’s approved FY2026 budget totals about $2.6 million, split roughly $1.5 million in state general fund and $1.1 million from the board’s filing fee fund. Jacob Crespi, the committee’s fiscal analyst, said the agency is not seeking new SGF but is asking permission to spend about $117,000 in remaining ARPA dollars on one-time IT and modernization items.
An agency representative explained the operations pressure behind two requested positions: a legal assistant and an administrative assistant. “We had about 8,400 filings” in the past year,…
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