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Healey defends tax cuts as essential amid state's tightening financial outlook

Healey defends tax cuts as essential amid state's tightening financial outlook
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Healey resets budget outlook with spending cuts, downgraded forecast

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and her budget team hit the reset button Monday, announcing a plan to cut $375 million from the current year’s budget amid flagging tax collections, to downgrade the amount of tax revenue expected this budget year by $1 billion, and to build the next state spending plan on the assumption […]

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Mass. fined local housing authorities $4 million for leaving units empty. But most were forgiven, or forgotten

The fines are one of the state's main tools to push local housing agencies to fill empty units, but they were largely meaningless for years because the state failed to enforce them.

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Mass. fined local housing authorities $4M for leaving units empty. Most were forgiven, or forgotten

Mass. fined local housing authorities $4M for leaving units empty. Most were forgiven, or forgotten
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This state official got a big payout after a controversial term

David D'Arcangelo is the latest state official to stay on the state payroll for months after leaving a high profile position.

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Mass. Republicans hesitant with temporary shelter funding plan

Beacon Hill Republicans cast doubt on a plan to use surplus dollars to plug Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system’s budget deficit.

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Editorial: Will spendthrift lawmakers bend to fiscal realities?

With the state’s revenue gravy train jumping the tracks, will the lawmakers curb their spending appetite and finally exercise some fiscal restraint? Beacon Hill’s deteriorating financial picture took another turn for the worse on Tuesday with the report that tax receipts in November again failed to meet expectations, leaving the state’s collections significantly below fiscal […]

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Massachusetts revenues plunge as spending soars

Beacon Hill’s growing financial headache got worse when the Healey administration reported that tax collections tumbled in November, putting the state’s revenue picture about $627 million below the projection for this point in the year. The Department of Revenue announced it collected $2.253 billion in taxes last month, which was $131 million or 5.5% less […]

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New revenue forecasts may leave state budget gap

The Massachusetts economy and state tax revenues are expected to see “moderate growth” and Beacon Hill can expect to make further adjustments following record-high collections in the immediate post-pandemic years.

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