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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The report on the state's tax take in September is good only at first blush — up 6 percent over last year and 4 over forecast.

But....

A big bump came from a timing quirk in income tax withholding and the bellwether sales tax receipts were down a bit for yet another month.

UPDATE: Now that I'm back on a computer and not using phone, here's the full report.

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