Oregon’s budget increased because of federal tax hike on wealthy
Oregon lawmakers delivered some great financial news this past Friday, allowing some room to breathe with the budget.
The state’s economists have said that the state revenues are supposed to come in at $162 million higher in the latest biennium because of the tax increases on the wealthy that was implemented by Congress. The tax increases will have an effect on filers in 2013, which influenced a sell-off of assets at the end of 2012. This gave a sudden increase to state tax receipts.
The sell-off will eventually lead to a reduction of $75 million in the revenue outlook for the next two years. Adding it up, the lawmakers will have about $88 million more to use for Oregon as they start to develop a budget for the 2013-2015 biennium. This is not a bailout, but rather a difficult choice that had to be made. Oregon has experienced some bad news in its finances in the past four years, and it’s nice to have this good financial news drop on them.
Senate President Peter Courtney mentioned that this forecast is a positive net gain because every single penny will help Oregon, parting the clouds a little to help the sun shine enter.
Overall, Oregon’s state general fund is supposed to hit around $16.6 billion for 2013 through 2015. That’s about a 9% increase from the current budget of $15.2 billion. There’s expected to be larger tax collections in the new few months because of higher earners pushing more of their income into 2012.
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First Nations University implemented federal income tax changes for payroll deductions
First Nations University has reported that they will start implementing federal income tax changes for their employee payroll deductions. Those employees who work in Prince Albert and Saskatoon will be treated under new federal income tax changes in their next payroll. First Nations University official also told that all the employees from various campuses will go through provincial income tax deductions. New federal income tax will be validated for Regina campus of First Nations University to all other campuses.
New federal income tax changes will start working from January 1, 2013. Workers at Regina campus will continue to exempt from their federal income tax, reported the First Nations University officials. University put the exemption first time in 2003 and now officials have understood that it has been applied too widely. VP of finance, Mr. Juliano Tupone announced that changes will be implemented and they are not going to fight it. Federal income tax will be based on new income tax brackets for First Nations University employees and new updates will be followed by the University. He added that they are working with the relevant parties to assist their employees as much as possible.
Mr. Tupone said that university administration wants to follow all the tax rules. Later on, a broadcasting company tried to contact the federal government about these updates but they declined to discuss about the issue. Further updates are expected this week once federal government comments about the new tax changes.
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Taxes Will Rise in 2013
Although the fiscal cliff has been averted, there was a consequence to it that will make many unhappy: Americans are projected to pay higher taxes in 2013.
From the information and facts taken from the Tax Policy Center, about 77% of American households will be paying higher federal income taxes for this year. The hike will mostly be in payroll tax.
According to Roberton Williams, an economist at the Tax Policy Center, only less than 2% of all tax units will see an increase in taxes in the year 2013.
If you are making over $400,000 in a single year, on your own, or if you’re part of a family that rakes in over $450,000 than the tax rate on your last dollars of income will go up about 5 percentage points.
All workers across the nation will definitely see an increase in taxes this year. Congress had let the payroll tax cut expire right before the calendar rolled into 2013, meaning that for every $100 you make this year, $2 will be taken away by taxes, compared to last year.
There was quite a debate over taxes, as it played a critical part in this past year’s presidential election. President Obama stayed true to what he said in raising taxes for the wealthy. President Obama’s decision is still more or less controversial because there are some that believe the wealthy shouldn’t bear the responsibility of paying more taxes because they have more money. Regardless of whether it’s fair or not, workers will still have to pay more taxes this year.
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