PARCA: Tax revenues continue to rise, leveling out post-pandemic
Alabama’s tax revenue levels post-pandemic. As federal funds decline, state spending on effective programs is essential.
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Legislature salaries to rise alongside median household income in 2025
As household incomes continue to rise in the state, so too will the compensation for Alabama's state senators and representatives.
Alabama lawmakers set to receive pay raise
Thanks to a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2012, lawmakers' salaries are tied to median income levels.
Study: Alabamians’ personal income boosted by federal COVID aid
Alabamians' boost in personal income was lower than in neighboring states, however.
Birmingham council OKs pilot program monthly income for 110 single mothers
Over 12 months, 110 single mothers caring for at least one child under 18 will receive $375 each month.
ER doctors in frontline battle against COVID-19 are facing pay cuts
Emergency room doctors across the nation are experiencing cuts to pay, benefits and hours even as they battle COVID-19. Suddenly ER doctors in Alabama are facing the same slashes to their income. “It’s crazy, cutting hours and pay right as hell breaks loose,” said an Alabama ER doctor who has spent the last month treating … Continued
“Fair tax” legislation would replace income, sales tax with consumption tax
Alabama Rep. Mike Holmes, R-Wetumpka, prefiled “fair tax” legislation for the 2020 regular session that replaces state income and sales taxes with a statewide consumption tax. The legislation, called the Alabama Economic Freedom Act, would create a uniform 8.03 percent tax on all purchases of goods and services in the state. The tax is designed … Continued
Personal income increased .5 percent in October
Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that personal income increased 0.5 percent in October after increasing 0.2 percent in September. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal income, increased 0.3 percent in October, the same increase as in September. Personal income increased $84.9 billion (0.5 percent) in October according to estimates … Continued
Moore campaign dismisses Daily Beast story as another misleading attack
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Saturday, the Roy Moore Campaign dismissed reporting by the Daily Beast that the former chief justice’s federal and state ethics filings do not match. “This is another misleading attack on Judge Moore and his wife,” the Moore campaign said in a statement. “First, the 990 Form, as reported in … Continued
Report: Roy Moore left income off Senate ethics disclosure form
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Daily Beast reported that U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore appears to have left as much as $150,000 in income off of his Senate financial disclosure forms when it was compared to his state of Alabama ethics disclosure form, which he filed two months earlier. There are also debts on … Continued