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Tax commissioner pitches $38 million budget, flags IT upgrades and staffing pressures
Summary
The Department of Taxes presented a proposed $38 million FY27 budget, highlighted IT modernization work and a roughly $300 million scaled tax-gap estimate, and described compliance staffing challenges concentrated in its audit division.
Bill Scholbeis, who introduced himself as commissioner of tax, presented the Department of Taxes’ FY27 request to the Senate Appropriations Committee and outlined priorities including service-oriented administration, reducing the tax gap and modernizing systems.
Scholbeis said the department’s FY27 request totals about $38 million, a roughly 2.34% increase year over year, and that salaries and benefits comprise about 90% of the budget. "We brought over $3,000,000,000 last year for the state of Vermont," Scholbeis said when…
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