CT tax revenue surges — for 3rd time since state budget was set

CT Mirror – Thursday, August 21, 2025
By Keith M. Phaneuf

When legislators wrapped the 2025 General Assembly session, they watered down new investments in health care and special education and scrapped income tax relief for middle class families, believing finances weren’t robust enough to support it.

But lawmakers learned this week from Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration that Connecticut had nearly an extra $1.3 billion to spare — enough to fund their proposals several times over.

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