{"id":82895,"date":"2015-09-24T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82895"},"modified":"2015-09-24T07:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:48:01","slug":"wake-up-call-nd-tax-revenue-projections-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82895","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wake-up call,&#8221; ND tax revenue projections short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56851\" alt=\"oil prices drop1\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Tax revenues in North Dakota fell $47 million short of projections in August as the number of oil drilling rigs continues to tumble down due to low crude prices.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Management and Budget Director Pam Sharp on Wednesday told a legislative group that sales tax collections came $44 million short of the forecast during the second month of the 2015-2017 biennium that began July 1. Revenues from a combination of gaming, income and other taxes were $3 million short from projections.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharp says the decline is directly related to the decrease in active rigs in North Dakota. The state currently has 68 rigs operating, compared to 196 a year ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 House Majority Leader Al Carlson says \u201cthe sky is not falling,\u201d but officials need to keep a close eye on revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Tax revenues in North Dakota fell $47 million short of projections in August as the number of oil drilling rigs continues to tumble down due to low crude prices. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Management and Budget Director Pam Sharp on Wednesday told a legislative group that sales tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82897,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions\/82897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}