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2010 Legislative Overview

The Legislative Overview describes Oklahoma's legislative and budget processes and identifies key decision-makers at the Capitol. Visit the overview »

Online Budget Guide

The Online Budget Guide is a tool for users to understand Oklahoma state and local governments, particularly how they collect and spend public money. Visit the guide »

FY '10 - FY '11Budget Information

May 15th, 2009 | ! | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

Our 2-page Budget Trends and Highlights sets out the state's budget situation through a series of concise graphs and bullet points (last updated March 9)

Click here for revised FY '10 budgets based on the February leadership agreement and proposed FY '11 appropriations based upon the Governor's FY '11 Executive Budget (Click here to see the 12-page Executive Summary of the Governor's budget).

Shining the Light on Tax Breaks

February 11th, 2010 | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

An OK Policy brief titled "Let There Be Light: Making Oklahoma's Tax Expenditures More Transparent and Accountable" makes the case for increasing disclosure and scrutiny of tax expenditures, the array of exemptions, credits, deductions, and the like in the tax code that allow taxes not to be paid when they otherwise would.

New Who Pays? Report from ITEP

November 17th, 2009 | Published in:

Budget and Taxes

A new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) reveals that low and moderate-income Oklahomans pay a greater percentage of their incomes in state and local taxes than those with higher incomes.

The full report is available here.

Oklahoma-specific results from the report are available here.