Aided by January tax increases, state revenues are expected to grow 5.3 percent this fiscal year and 8.1 percent in fiscal 2009, but state analysts said there were continuing signs of economic weakness that could lower future tax collections.
Comptroller Peter Franchot cautioned that the state and the country are “in a high-risk fiscal and economic environment.”
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