Arizona
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes the links below to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.
Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices
Executive budget information, strategic planning, statistical information, and monthly revenue and expenditure reports.
Transparency website with financial highlights, reports audits, graphs, and economic outlook.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Taxpayer organization with tax policy finance information and annual budget reviews. It is a member of the National Taxpayers Conference, a national association of chief executive officers of state groups that analyze public finance and tax issues.
Budget and tax section is focused on children and families; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
More issue than budget oriented; research touches on budget, economic growth, and pension issues.
Legislative Offices
Fiscal policy analysis with information on budget process, budget updates, economic analysis, revenue updates, and links to general reports.
Revenue section and past briefs on the reserve fund, debt, taxes, and other topics.
Financial and performance audits, with some attention to retirement system and spending limitations.