Budget Spotlight

DC Residents Support Taxes to Preserve Services: Poll on Mayor’s Budget Shows Support for Revenue Increases And Opposition to Service Cuts


DC residents strongly support increasing income taxes on individuals making over $200,000 a year as part of an effort to preserve funding for necessities like education, human services, and public safety according to a new poll. When asked about the best way to approach DC’s $322 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year that starts [...]


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The District’s budget provides funding for a variety of critical public programs and services including education, transportation, health care, and job training, just to name a few.  These programs and services are financed largely through tax and fee collections.  The District’s budget is based on a fiscal year which runs from October through September.

–Overview and Timeline of the DC Budget Process

–What’s In the Mayor’s Proposed FY 2013 Budget?

  

It’s Budget Season! Once again the Budget is being Balanced by Cuts in Housing and Human Services (Hill Rag)

Big Leap Year Budget News (District’s Dime)

DC’s Alphabet Soup of Important Financial Reports (District’s Dime)

Quick Q& A on CAFR and $240 million surplus (District’s Dime)

The Congressional Supercommittee and Its Power to Impact Local DC (Hill Rag)