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Appendix D Summary of Presentations of Public Interest and Other User Groups
Appendix D Summary of Presentations of Public Interest and Other User Groups
Pages 151-156
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FEDERATION OF TAX ADMINISTRATORS The Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA) finds the government finance series to be the best, most consistent data across states, and the federation uses this series widely. The main drawback is the slow release of the state and local data.
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The data bring all the information into one source, include detailed footnotes, and provide a standard for interstate finance comparisons, which, for such small organizations, is vital for independent researchers in conducting research with minimal consultation with the Governments Division staff. Members expressed concerns related to the timeliness and quality of the data.
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES The National Association of Counties (NACO) uses the Governments Division data in responding to information requests from policy makers and reporters; it also directs inquiries about county information to the division's website. In its lobbying work and research, NACO uses virtually all of the data products from the division; aggregate data are particularly helpful.
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) makes most use of the quarterly and annual financial surveys for trend analysis and interstate comparisons. Many of its publications on fiscal policies, such as its 1999 study of user charges and its series of reports on local property taxes from 2002–2004, rely on the Governments Division tax surveys. The kind of analysis and reporting done in those publications would be impossible in the absence of the division's data compilations. NCSL also uses the division's data for less formal responses to questions from state legislators, legislative staff, and other NCSL staff on state and local revenues and expenditures. The long-standing presentation of tax and expenditure data has served the conference's needs well. NCSL would like to have more timely data but understands the difficulty of collecting and presenting data, since the conference itself has been unable to present state tax legislation in less than eight months after state legislative sessions end.
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Researchers of local governments are challenged in making across-gov Based on presentations by Christiana Brennan, the National League of Cities, during the panel's meeting with data users, May 9, 2006, and by Michael Pagano, National League of Cities and the University of Illinois at Chicago, at the panel's workshop, June 22, 2006.
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NLC staff offered two examples of per capita tax measures as inaccurate indicators of tax burden on a population: Ohio, where commuter taxes are collected from people living outside the city in which they work, and Alaska, where taxes are paid by non-Alaskan citizens. Incorporating the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
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