Building the Budget: New Hampshire’s State Budget Process and Recent Funding Trends

Building the New Hampshire State Budget is a long process, beginning when the State government is not even halfway through the duration of the previous State Budget and usually ending in that previous budget’s final days, approximately a year later. The process includes five major phases, challenging jargon, unwritten norms, multiple revenue estimates, and several ...

An Overview of New Hampshire’s Tax System

(NOTE: See NHFPI’s May 2017 publication, Revenue in Review: An Overview of New Hampshire’s Tax System and Major Revenue Sources, for updated information on New Hampshire’s revenue sources and recent trends.) Due in large measure to the recent national recession and the continuing struggle to recover from it, New Hampshire will face a budget shortfall on the ...