Governor Deval Patrick's Budget Recommendation - House 2 Fiscal Year 2009

Governor's Budget Recommendation FY 2009

Department of Revenue




Fiscal Year 2009 Resource Summary ($000)
DEPARTMENT FY 2009
Budgetary
Recommendations
FY 2009
Federal, Trust,
and ISF
FY 2009
Total
Spending
FY 2009
Budgetary
Non-Tax Revenue
Department of Revenue 265,542 123,010 388,552 208,888

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account description amount
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 388,551,746
Budgetary Direct Appropriations 265,542,082
Direct Appropriations
1201-0100 Department of Revenue
For the operation of the department of revenue, including the tax administration division and the audit of certain foreign corporations; provided, that the department may allocate an amount not to exceed $250,000 to the office of the attorney general for the purpose of the tax prosecution unit; provided further, that the department may charge the expenses for computer services, including the cost of personnel and other support costs provided to the child support enforcement unit, from this item to item 1201-0160, consistent with the costs attributable to that unit; provided further, that notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, seasonal positions funded by this account are positions requiring the services of an incumbent, on either a full-time or less than full-time basis beginning not earlier than December 1 and ending not later than November 30; provided further, that seasonal positions funded by this account may not be filled by an incumbent for more than 10-months within a 12-month period; and provided further, that the department shall work with other state agencies, including the office of the attorney general, the division of unemployment assistance and the department of industrial accidents, to aggressively enforce the commonwealth's laws relating to employee classification, as well as to encourage voluntary compliance with these laws, with the goal of increasing the collection of income tax revenues related to workers who are currently improperly classified as independent contractors
119,751,849
1201-0118 Division of Local Services
For the operation of the division of local services
6,835,378
1201-0160 Child Support Enforcement Division
For the operation of the child support enforcement division; provided, that the department of revenue may allocate funds to the department of state police, the district courts, the probate and family courts, the district attorneys and other state agencies for the performance of certain child support enforcement activities, and that those agencies are directed to expend the funds for the purposes of this item; provided further, that the federal receipts associated with the child support computer network shall be drawn down at the highest possible rate of reimbursement and deposited into a revolving account to be expended for the network; provided further, that federal receipts associated with child support enforcement grants shall be deposited into a revolving account to be drawn down at the highest possible rate of reimbursement and to be expended for the grant authority; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of the authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system for federal incentives and the network in accounts 1201-0161, 1201-0410 and 1201-0412
52,012,766
1231-1000 Water and Sewer Rate Relief Payments - Local Services Program
For the Commonwealth Sewer Rate Relief Fund established in section 2Z of chapter 29 of the General Laws
15,000,000
1232-0100 Underground Storage Tank Reimbursements
For underground storage tank removal and remediation reimbursements under chapter 21J of the General Laws
18,200,000
1232-0200 Underground Storage Tank Administrative Review Board
For the operation of the underground storage tank program and the underground storage tank petroleum product cleanup administrative review board under chapter 21J of the General Laws
1,799,403
1232-0300 Underground Storage Tank Municipal Grants
For grants to municipalities for the removal and replacement of underground storage tanks, under section 4 of chapter 21J and section 37A of chapter 148 of the General Laws
465,406
1233-2000 Tax Abatements for Disabled Veterans, Widows, Blind Persons and the Elderly
For the tax abatement program for certain veterans, widows, blind persons and the elderly; provided, that cities and towns shall be reimbursed for the abatements granted under clauses Seventeenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-second A, Twenty-second B, Twenty-second C, Twenty-second D, Twenty-second E, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-seventh A and Fifty-second of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws
17,241,130
1233-2006 Reimbursements for Motor Vehicle Excise to Disabled Veterans
For reimbursements to cities and towns for additional exemptions from the motor vehicle excise granted under the seventh paragraph of section 1 of chapter 60A of the General Laws, as amended by sections 13 to 14 of chapter 260 of the acts of 2006
1,468,525
1233-2310 Tax Abatements for the Elderly
For the elderly persons component of the tax abatements program; provided, that cities and towns shall be reimbursed for taxes abated under clauses Forty-first, Forty-first B, Forty-first C and Forty-first C 1/2 of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws; and provided further, that the commonwealth shall reimburse each city or town that accepts clauses Forty-first B, Forty-first C or Forty-first C 1/2 for additional costs incurred in determining eligibility of applicants under these clauses in an amount not to exceed $2 per exemption granted
9,890,345

account description amount
Retained Revenues
1201-0130 Additional Auditors Retained Revenue
The department of revenue may expend for the operation of the department an amount not to exceed $16,330,000 from revenues collected by the additional auditors for an enhanced audit program; provided, that those auditors shall discover and identify persons who are delinquent either in the filing of a tax return or the payment of a tax due and payable to the commonwealth, obtain the delinquent returns, and collect the delinquent taxes for a prior fiscal year; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system
16,330,000
1201-0164 Child Support Enforcement Federal Reimbursement Retained Revenue
The child support enforcement division of the department of revenue may expend for the operation of the division an amount not to exceed $6,547,280 from federal reimbursements; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system
6,547,280

account description amount
Federal Grant Spending 231,524
1201-0104 Joint Federal/State Motor Fuel Tax Compliance Project
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Joint Federal/State Motor Fuel Tax Compliance Project
10,000
1201-0109 Access and Visitation - Parent Education Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Access and Visitation - Parent Education Program
221,524
account description amount
Trust and Other Spending 122,778,140
1201-0112 Higher Education Student Loan Offset Fund 322,265
1201-0113 Massachusetts United States Olympic Fund 82,477
1201-0161 Child Support Enforcement Revolving Fund 7,774,689
1201-0350 Implementation of Health Care Reform Bill Expendable Trust 90,091
1201-0410 Child Support Enforcement Trust Fund 6,221,948
1201-0412 Child Support IV-D 179,667
1201-1083 District Local Technical Assistance Fund 42,750
1201-2203 Retained Tax Intercept Fees 1,554,180
1201-2204 Internal Revenue Service Tax Intercept Fees 398,750
1201-2286 Massachusetts Community Preservation Trust Fund 97,618,931
1201-2448 Clearinghouse Expendable Trust 980,277
1201-2488 Child Support Penalties Account 1,750,000
1201-5600 State Election Campaign Fund-receipts 349,029
1231-1030 Regional Efficiency Assistance Grants Trust Fund 3,000,000
1231-3573 Division of Local Services Educational Programs 50,000
1233-3300 County Correction Fund 2,363,086


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