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Page 1: Primer: Strategic Revenue Declines€¦ · I. Major Sources of WY Revenue & Trends (p. 3) II. Recap - Volatility of Major State Revenue Sources (p. 11) III. State & School Appropriation

July 13-14, 2020

Joint Appropriations CommitteeWyoming Legislative Service Office

Primer: Strategic Revenue Declines

2020 Interim Topic Priority #3

WYOMING LEGISLATIVE SERVICE OFFICE July 13-14, 2020 – Joint Appropriations Committee (updated July 13, 2020)

Page 2: Primer: Strategic Revenue Declines€¦ · I. Major Sources of WY Revenue & Trends (p. 3) II. Recap - Volatility of Major State Revenue Sources (p. 11) III. State & School Appropriation

July 13-14, 2020

Joint Appropriations CommitteeWyoming Legislative Service Office

Presentation OutlineI. Major Sources of WY Revenue & Trends (p. 3)

II. Recap - Volatility of Major State Revenue Sources

(p. 11)

III. State & School Appropriation & Funding Trends (p.

12)

IV. Reserves (p. 19)

V. FY2021 Preliminary Cashflow Analysis (p. 22)

VI. Takeaways (p. 23)

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July 13-14, 2020

Joint Appropriations CommitteeWyoming Legislative Service Office

I. Major Sources of

WY Revenue & Trends• Sales and use taxes

• Ad valorem taxes (considered through changes in assessed valuations)

• Investment income

• Mineral taxes and payments (Severance, Ad valorem, Royalties)

• Oil

• Natural gas

• Coal

• Technical notes:

• Hashed bars or dashed lines reflect projections

• “Measure of volatility” for this presentation uses the standard deviation of the

annual percentage change in collections. The higher the measure, the greater

the annual variation (up and down) of the State’s major revenue streams.

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Joint Appropriations CommitteeWyoming Legislative Service Office

Summary: Revenue Volatility and

Revenue Decline Contribution Revenue Source Estimated Long-term

Volatility Measure

Contribution to May 2020

CREG Revenue Decline

(April 2020 – June 2022)

Sales and Use Tax ~11% ($387 million)

Investment Income ~32% ($20 million)

Oil ~29% ($798 million)

Natural Gas ~35% ($233 million)

Coal ~24% ($213 million)

Non-mineral A.V. ~4% $0

Other NA ($192 million)

TOTAL* ~13% ($1,843 million)

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*Note: Total includes $352 million impact to the PWMTF from

all minerals, without which the impact is $1,491 million.

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Revenue by Major Source

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Trona (Severance and Ad Valorem)

Coal (Severance and Ad Valorem)

Natural Gas (Severance and Ad Valorem)

Oil (Severance and Ad Valorem)

PWMTF and GF (Pooled Income)

State Sales and Use Tax

Notes: Ad valorem taxes only include

only the 43 base mill levy for K-12

education. FMRs not yet disaggregated

by mineral.

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Joint Appropriations CommitteeWyoming Legislative Service Office

GF Share: Sales and Use Taxes

Note: The percent change in FY 1994 for measuring volatility has been removed due to the statewide sales and use tax rate change from 3 to 4

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Measure of volatility: 11%

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Assessed Valuations

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Minerals Totals

Total Mineral Assessed Valuation Volatility: 23%

Non-Mineral Assessed Valuation Volatility: 4%

Total Statewide Assessed Valuation Volatility: 14%

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PWMTF Income GF Portion of Pooled Income

PWMTF Income Volatility: 38%

GF Portion of Pooled Income Volatility: 45%

Total Investment Income Volatility: 32%

Note: Calculation of PWMTF investment income volatility does not include FY1970 through FY1977.

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PWMTF Investment Earnings by Type and

Spending Policy Amount

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Interest and Dividends

5% Spending Policy

Source: LSO analysis of

Wyoming State Treasurer's

Office Annual Reports

Average annual net realized capital gains FY07 – FY19:

$142 million; 48% of total investment earnings;

Average annual percent of rolling 5-year corpus: 2.9%

Average annual interest and dividends FY07 – FY19:

$152 million; 52% of total investment earnings;

Average annual percent of rolling 5-year corpus: 3.4%

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Mineral Taxes and Payments

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FMRs Coal Lease Bonus Severance Taxes

FMR Volatility: 23%*

Coal Lease Bonus Volatility: NA / (2,569%)

Severance Tax Volatility: NA / 50%**

Notes: “Volatility” defined as the standard deviation of the annual percentage change

in collections.

*FMR volatility does not include FY 1978 since Wyoming’s share of FMRs was

increased from 37.5% to 50% on January 1, 1977.

**Severance tax volatility does not account for numerous revisions in tax rates,

therefore should not be relied upon.

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Oil Production / Assessed Value

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Natural Gas Production / Assessed Value

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In order of approximated volatility,

Wyoming’s major revenue sources are as

follows:

• Natural gas ~35%

• Investment income ~32%

• Oil ~29%

• Coal ~24%

• Sales and use taxes ~11%

• Non-mineral property taxes ~4%

II. Recap - Volatility of Major

State Revenue Sources

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III. State & School Appropriation

& Funding Trends• Wyoming’s traditional state revenue increased by 300% in a decade

($528 M in FY1999 to $2.2 B in FY2008)

• Similarly, State K-12 Revenue - School Foundation Program (SFP)

and School Capital Construction Account (SCCA) – increased by

more than 300% in a decade ($500 M in 1999-2000 to $2.26 B in

2009-2010)

• Over the next twelve fiscal years, traditional annual revenues

averaged 17 percent lower than the peak of FY2008; biennial K-12

state revenues averaged 20 percent lower than the peak

• State support for K-12 school districts exceeded local support in

FY2017, FY2018 and is forecast to do so in FY2021 and beyond.

This means the majority of K-12 funding is from the State.

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Traditional State Govt. Revenue

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State and K-12 Budgets

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School Foundation Program Funding

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Historical “Guarantee”

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Estimated State and K-12 Revenue

v. Budgets

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IV. Reserves.

State Agency Pool Beginning Balance

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First transfer to LSRA occurred in FY2005.

State operating balances increased steadily from FY2004

through FY 2016. Since then, balances have trended

downward, though unevenly.

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Examination of the State Agency Pool balance (including the Tobacco

Trust and LSRA) allows consideration of a high level trend without the

“noise” of transfers between accounts, elimination of accounts and

creation of new accounts.

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Spending Policy Reserve

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Legislative Stabilization

Reserve Account

$0.0

$0.2

$0.4

$0.6

$0.8

$1.0

$1.2

$1.4

$1.6

$1.8

$2.0

BIL

LIO

NS

BIENNIUM

BIENNIAL BEGINNING BALANCE

($0.8)

($0.6)

($0.4)

($0.2)

$0.0

$0.2

$0.4

$0.6

$0.8

BIL

LIO

NS

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES

REVENUES AND TRANSFERS IN

APPROPRIATIONS AND TRANSFERS OUT

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Legislative Savings to LSRA and

PWMTF

21a

-$800

-$600

-$400

-$200

$0

$200

$400

$600

$800

05-06 07-08 09-10 11-12 13-14 15-16 17-18 19-20 21-22

MIL

LIO

NS

BIENNIUM

PWMTF CORPUS LSRA - NET APPROPRIATIONS IN/OUT LSRA - SPENDING POLICY AND DIRECT REVENUE

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V. FY2021 Preliminary Cashflow Analysis

-$100

$0

$100

$200

$300

$400

$500

$600

BeginningJune

End June July August September October November December January February March

MIL

LIO

NS

ESTIMATED RUNNING BALANCE ESTIMATED OUTLAYS ESTIMATED INCOME

Based upon May 2020 CREG without any budget reductions or administrative actions,

State cashflow concerns present as early as December 2020.

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• Wyoming’s revenue sources are highly volatile –

individually (and compared to other states)

• Revenues increased dramatically in the first decade of

this century, followed by variable, but lower overall

levels

• Over the last decade state appropriations (not including

savings) have been steady to slightly declining

• K-12 total budgets have been steady to slightly

increasing in most years

• Wyoming policymakers exercised six forms of savings:

(1) constitutional severance taxes; (2) constitutional

royalties; (3) statutory severance taxes (at times); (4)

statutory reserve amount in budgeting; (5) investment

spending policies; and (6) ad hoc tips, reversions and

direct appropriations

VI. Takeaways

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• Overall reserves were modestly declining prior to

COVID-19; “rainy day” funds were being expended

• Economic ramifications of COVID-19 and

associated policies are accelerating the

underlying revenue-expenditure structural

disconnects

• May 2020 CREG revenue forecast indicates

substantial declines in both state government and

K-12 school district projected revenues (Some

near-term actual results are somewhat more

optimistic)

• Regardless, the revenue-expenditure disconnect

is growing, unsustainable, and with history as a

guide may have stints of sizeable volatility

Takeaways

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Questions?

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