Southeast Businesses Budget Survey Findings

Do This Least

BUDGET SOLUTIONS Do This Most

Southeast Conference asked 320 Southeast business owners and top managers
in 25 regional communities how they would like to see the state achieve a balanced
budget. Southeast business leaders are accustomed to prioritizing and making
budgetary trade-offs. This is an overall ranking of their responses.

-1.25
-1.5

1.95

Reduce Oil Tax Credits
Reduce PFD Payments
More POMV Use
Income Tax
Increase Corporate Taxes
Use Borough 

Pipeline Tax $

0.15

University Cuts

0.15

-0.33

0.96

0.54

Reduce Power Cost Equalization

-0.09
-0.27

1.06

0.2

State Sales Tax

-0.03

1.48

Use Savings

Cut Medicaid
Cut Municipal Sharing

-0.74

AMHS Cuts

-0.75

K-12 Cuts

State Property Tax
-1

-0.5

0

0.5

1

1.5

Responses weighted by use preference

Survey Prepared by Rain Coast Data on behalf of Southeast Conference


2

 The State of Alaska has been struggling to develop a fiscal solution
to the budgetary gap. Please rate your preferences regarding how
you would like to see to the state achieve a balanced budget.
Yes, to the
fullest
extent
possible

Yes, in
moderate
amounts

Yes, but
by a
small
amount

No,
don't
change
this

Don't
know

Reduce oil tax credits

38%

22%

17%

16%

7%

Reduce individual PFD payments

29%

31%

11%

24%

4%

Increase percentage of
Permanent Fund earnings used
to pay for state services

21%

27%

18%

28%

6%

Apply a state-wide income tax

26%

21%

16%

34%

3%

Increase corporate income tax

16%

18%

23%

37%

5%

Transfer pipeline property tax
revenue from boroughs to the
state

15%

11%

15%

41%

18%

Apply a state-wide sales tax

12%

17%

23%

45%

3%

10%

21%

24%

44%

1%

9%

14%

25%

46%

6%

4%

15%

31%

43%

6%

12%

13%

14%

58%

3%

Reduce municipal revenue
sharing

5%

12%

22%

45%

16%

Reduce AMHS funding

5%

12%

15%

66%

1%

Reduce K-12 funding

4%

12%

17%

66%

1%

Apply a state-wide property tax

3%

5%

11%

76%

5%

Budget Categories

Reduce University of Alaska
funding
Reduce Power Cost Equalization
funding
Use savings
Reduce State Medicaid spending

Southeast Conference surveyed 320 regional business leaders for the Southeast
Alaska Business Climate Survey. The full survey results will be released shortly. 

Find out more at www.seconference.org.
Survey Prepared by Rain Coast Data on behalf of Southeast Conference