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Monday, November 17, 2008

State budget directors says Florida may see billion-dollar dip in collected taxes, News-Press (Ft. Myers)

By Bill Cotterell
November 10, 2008

The state budget director said today that next week’s revenue-estimating conference might result in a billion-dollar reduction in Florida’s projected tax collections.

That’s on top of the $1.4 billion already lopped off of revenue expectations for the current fiscal year. Jerry McDaniel, head of the Office of Policy and Budget, met with Gov. Charlie Crist for about 45 minutes this afternoon to go over options for coping with the state’s continued revenue shortfall.

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