North Carolina revenue forecasts have surpassed $33 billion annually, and the state will have roughly $3.25 billion in excess for Fiscal Year 2022-23, or 10.7% more than had been previously budgeted.
The N.C. Appeals Court must decide in the weeks ahead whether Currituck County commissioners misspent tax money raised to boost tourism. The court heard oral arguments Monday in a case challenging Currituck’s use of occupancy tax proceeds. A lower court ruled in favor of the county.
More than seven months after he started the job, State Controller Nels Roseland has won official confirmation from the N.C. Senate. Senators voted 47-0 to approve Roseland as controller through June 2029. The seven-year appointment also requires a vote in the state House.
Opponents of the way Currituck County uses occupancy tax proceeds offered their final written arguments Monday to the N.C. Court of Appeals. The court will hear oral arguments in the case next week.
The N.C. Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks ahead whether Orange County will need to repay millions of dollars collected for school impact fees since 2009. Judges heard an hour of oral arguments Tuesday in the case Zander v. Orange County.
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Nearly two months after Greenville shut down its red-light camera program, the city continues to defend the program in court. Greenville filed paperwork Wednesday asking the N.C. Supreme Court to consider the issue.
Watauga County and three of its towns urge the N.C. Supreme Court to reject Boone’s request to take up a dispute involving local sales taxes. Boone is trying to drag the state’s highest court into a "messy, local political squabble," according to a document filed Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
For the second time in less than a year, a new judge is taking over North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case. Senior Resident Superior Court Judge James Ammons of Cumberland County will oversee the case moving forward.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, asked State Auditor Beth Wood about findings from an audit of COVID-19 relief funds. This exchange took place during the Dec. 23, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
The Town of Boone is urging the N.C. Supreme Court to consider a lawsuit challenging Watauga County’s distribution of local sales tax revenue. Town officials filed a petition Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
