{"id":242702,"date":"2026-07-14T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:15:18","slug":"pennsylvania-budget-sidesteps-skill-games-cannabis-tax-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242702\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Budget Sidesteps Skill Games, Cannabis Tax Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed a $51 billion fiscal year 2027 budget bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/hb2400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HB 2400<\/a>) passed over the weekend that dropped <a data-terminal-id=\"T9WAJUKIUPSW\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/pennsylvania-budget-plan-renews-cannabis-skill-games-tax-push\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his proposals<\/a> to tax cannabis and skill games.<\/p>\n<p>Bipartisan proposals to <a data-terminal-id=\"TE9XMGKIP3JF\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/pennsylvania-weighs-digital-ad-tax-as-maryland-case-looms-large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tax digital advertising<\/a> and <a data-terminal-id=\"TF0R0BKIUPYX\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/pennsylvania-cpas-push-for-tax-carveout-from-whistleblower-bill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create a whistleblower act<\/a> to detect tax fraud also failed to pass as part of the budget. The proposals had been designed to generate more revenue as the state confronts a structural deficit that could top $5 billion, according a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifo.state.pa.us\/download.cfm?file=Resources\/Documents\/2026_Mid_Year_Update_Final.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office this year. <\/p>\n<p>But the budget measure may not be the final word this year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed a $51 billion fiscal year 2027 budget bill (HB 2400) passed over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97956,104053,28,30,29,1978,104054,50796,75179,80166],"class_list":["post-242702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cannabis-regulation","tag-drug-tax","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-state-budget","tag-tax-accountants","tag-tax-evasion","tag-tax-fraud","tag-taxation-of-digital-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}