Kansas brought in more tax revenue than expected last month, reports The Topeka Capital-Journal.The state exceeded projections by $2.6 million. However, the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, as the state has scaled back projections twice during the current fiscal year.
And the Brownback administration is still facing tough decisions about how to cut $80 million from the state budget. To further complicate things, a recent decision by the Kansas Supreme Court will require the state to flow more aid to K-12 public schools.
The revenue in April does not make up for March’s shortfall, when the state came up $8.5 million short of the official revenue estimate. That’s on top of a $53 million budget gap in February. The February shortfall was so alarming that it led Brownback to impose a three percent across-the-board reduction in spending by the state’s public universities.