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Release thumbnail - Initial Revenue Estimate Announcement - 2025-05-07
Initial Revenue Estimate Announcement
May 07, 2025 | Revenue Estimates

The IFO will release its Initial Revenue Estimate on Tuesday, May 20th at 1:30 PM. The report will contain revisions to the FY 2024-25 estimate and an initial estimate for FY 2025-26. See the announcement for a link to register for the presentation.

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Release thumbnail - April 2025 Revenue Update - 2025-05-01
April 2025 Revenue Update
May 01, 2025 | Revenue & Economic Update

The Commonwealth collected $6.21 billion in General Fund revenues for April, an increase of $528 million compared to April 2024.

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Release thumbnail - Pennsylvania Unemployment Claims Tracker (April 2025) - 2025-04-29
Pennsylvania Unemployment Claims Tracker (April 2025)
April 29, 2025 | Economics and Other

This economic brief tracks the latest claims for unemployment compensation (UC) for all covered workers and federal workers only. The IFO is tracking these claims in preparation for its May 20 initial revenue estimate.

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Release thumbnail - Retail Delivery Fee Revenue Estimates - 2025-04-23
Retail Delivery Fee Revenue Estimates
April 23, 2025 | Economics and Other

In response to a legislative request, the IFO transmitted a brief that provides revenue estimates for a statewide retail delivery fee.

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Release thumbnail - Unemployment Claims Tracker - 2025-04-10
Unemployment Claims Tracker
April 10, 2025 | Economics and Other

This economic brief tracks the latest claims for unemployment compensation (UC) for all covered workers and federal workers only. The IFO is tracking these claims in preparation for its May 20 initial revenue estimate.

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Release thumbnail - FY 2024-25 Interim Revenue Update - 2025-04-03
FY 2024-25 Interim Revenue Update
April 03, 2025 | Economics and Other

This budget update supplements the regular monthly revenue update published by the IFO and provides additional detail for March General Fund revenues. March revenues include large payments for gross receipts, insurance premiums, bank shares and corporate net income taxes.

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Release thumbnail - March 2025 Revenue Update - 2025-04-01
March 2025 Revenue Update
April 01, 2025 | Revenue & Economic Update

The Commonwealth collected $6.25 billion in General Fund revenues for March, a decrease of $34 million (-0.5%) compared to March 2024.

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Release thumbnail - Aging Population Drives Job Gains - 2025-03-20
Aging Population Drives Job Gains
March 20, 2025 | Economics and Other

This research brief uses new benchmarked jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to track the sectors and industries that gained or lost jobs since 2019 (i.e., pre-Covid).

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Release thumbnail - 2025 County Millage Rates - 2025-03-17
2025 County Millage Rates
March 17, 2025 | Property Tax

The IFO released a research brief that reviews county-level millage rate changes for CY 2025 and the prior decade.

This brief was updated on March 20, 2025 to correct an issue related to counties characterized as reassessed. 

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Release thumbnail - Executive Budget Revenue Proposals - 2025-03-04
Executive Budget Revenue Proposals
March 04, 2025 | Revenue Estimates

This brief provides a summary of estimates for revenue proposals included in the FY 2025-26 Executive Budget, and a comparison to the estimates from that document. For a more detailed explanation of the data and methodologies used for estimates, see the Analysis of Revenue Proposals released concurrently with this brief.

This document was reposted on March 6 to address a formatting issue. All figures are unchanged from the original posting.

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