The next step in the fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget process is the release of the Senate Ways and Means (SWM) budget on Tuesday, May 16th. This brief provides five major questions that the SWM spending plan will have to address.

This week, the House deliberated on its fiscal year (FY) 2018 budget, completing debate and dispensing with over 1200 amendments in just two days. The House added $77.7 million in new spending to the original House Ways and Means (HWM) budget plan as well as 79 policy sections.

Today, the House Ways and Means Committee (HWM) released a $45.05 billion budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2018. This brief provides initial analysis of major spending and policy provisions in the budget plan.

The House Ways and Means Committee (HWM) will release its spending plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 next week. The bill will reflect the House’s spending and policy priorities, which could closely mirror or significantly differ from Governor Baker’s proposal. This brief highlights five issues in the…

Last week, the legislature enacted a fiscal year (FY) 2017 supplemental budget to address $144.4M in costs unaccounted for in the original budget. With this spending bill completed, MTF takes stock of the state’s fiscal position as we head into the final three months of the fiscal year.

As health care costs continue to consume more of the state budget each year, Governor Baker's most recent budget proposal includes several bold policy provisions to curb this trend. This brief summarizes the Administration’s proposal, and highlights several conceptual and practical flaws that argue…

The Governor’s FY 2018 budget proposal (House 1) has been released and proposes $45.2 billion in spending. This Bulletin provides an overview of the major spending, revenue and policy components included therein.

Massachusetts municipalities are doing more with less from the state as they continue to tighten their belts and rely more on local receipts to keep mounting debt obligations at bay, according to the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation’s (MTF) 46th Municipal Finance Data booklet released today.