NC Budget and Tax Center’s Sally Hodges Copple on the legislature’s worrisome tax triggers

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: April 20, 2026

Words: 171

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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As state lawmakers return to Raleigh this week for their 2026 legislative short session, there’s one issue that looms as the most important and most challenging: the state budget. Thanks to a long series of personal and corporate income tax cuts (and more that are scheduled to take place), the state will soon face a massive new budget shortfall that will endanger an array of core public systems and services that are already …

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