The Bureau of Finance and Management and the Legislative Research Council issued mixed fiscal projections today. To be clear, both agencies agree we’re going to…
Tag: sales tax
The Bureau of Finance and Management has posted the disappointing sales tax revenue data for which Governor Kristi Noem was bracing us last week. In…
Governor Kristi Noem is bracing us for a weak fiscal report for Fiscal Year 2019. Governor Noem says we should expect to see less state sales tax…
January, February, March—for three straight months, South Dakota state government has taken in less money than it needs to cover its Fiscal Year 2019 budget.…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is already too busy polishing his go-karts to bother filling out the Legislature’s summer study survey. But with Lake Kampeska bearing…
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) finally got kids the lemonade tax exemption he promised them. After failing to get a similar measure through the House last…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) can be happy that he was wrong. Three months ago, Senator Monroe predicted the Legislature would repeal the Partridge Amendment. Cue…
Hey, where’d the Partridge Amendment go? After all the work Senator Jeff Partridge (R-34/Rapid City) did to rewrite his automatic sales tax reduction into the…
At Saturday’s crackerbarrel, Sister Kathleen Bierne asked Representative Drew Dennert to use his influence to push the food tax cut that he helped Democrats hijack…
Senate Bill 86, the Partridge Backtrack, has turned into the 2018 Nesiba food-tax break. House Taxation’s hearing on SB 86 started normally enough yesterday, with…