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Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Review News
August, 2011
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FIELD FOUNDATION GRANT |
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CTBA Chairman Bill
O'Connor with Field Foundation of Illinois Senior
Program Officer
Kim Riordan Van Horn.
CTBA appreciates the Field Foundation's $20,000
grant award to the Center for 2011.
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MARTIRE TESTIFIES
ON CORPORATE TAXES |
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CTBA Executive Director Ralph Martire testified before the Joint
House/Senate Revenue Committee on July 19, 2011, and Tuesday,
August 2, 1011 in Chicago and Rockford, respectively, on
business tax structure and incentive programs in Illinois.
Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) and House Speaker
Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) created the joint committee to be
led by House Revenue Chairman John Bradley (D-Marion) and Senate
Revenue Chairwoman Toi Hutchinson (D-Olympia Fields). Martire's
written testimony, submitted for the record, is here.The
next two meetings of the joint committee are scheduled for
August 23rd in Springfield and August 30th
in Marion.
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JULY REVENUE INFORMATION
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The Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and
Accountability (COGFA), a
bipartisan
state legislative panel,
reports that Fiscal Year 2012 revenues started higher in
spite of a drop in federal sources. Access the COGFA
July 2011
briefing here.
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SUMMER 2011 INTERNS
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Leonard Fraser, Alexandra Zarecky, Angelique Gayle,
Robert Solomon |
Known for their willingness to perform mundane tasks, to work
for free, and to keep staff on its toes, interns are important
to any office. At CTBA, we owe a special debt of gratitude to
our 2011 summer undergraduate interns: Leonard Fraser, Adler
School of Professional Psychology; Alexandra Zarecky, Vanderbilt
University; Angelique Gayle, Howard University; Robert Solomon,
Indiana University. Thanks for your enthusiastic coverage of
meetings, your ability to tackle economic policy research, and
your dedication to having a good time while helping out!
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DEAR READERS: |
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Informed
citizens make all the difference in advancing fair, efficient
and sound fiscal policy. That is why we are turning to you to
ask for your help meeting a goal of adding 1,000 new people to
our contact list so we can raise awareness across the state.
Please forward this newsletter to 10 friends and tell them why
you receive CTBA information, and please ask them to sign up on
our website.
We have lots of
hard work ahead of us. But, right now, I want to say thank you
for paying attention to the important issues facing Illinois.
Kind regards,
Kathy
Kathy Miller
Director of Communications and Development
kmiller@ctbaonline.org
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EQUIPMENT DONATION
The Center for Tax and Budget
Accountability is seeking the donation of a gently used desk top
printer. If you have such an item you would like to contribute,
please call Kathy Miller at 312.332.1481 or email
kmiller@ctbaonline.org Thank you. |
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