The author reports that state tax revenue for the October-December quarter of 2003 grew by 7.2 percent compared with the same quarter in the previous year. State tax revenue declined from July 2001 to July 2002. Since then it has been growing, but it is only with this latest quarter that revenue...

The author writes that the July-September quarter of 2003 is the first quarter since July-September 2000 that revenue from all three major state taxes has grown. State tax revenue in the July-September quarter of 2003 grew by 4.5 percent

The author writes that state tax revenue in the October-December 2004 quarter grew 7.8 percent compared with revenue in the same quarter in 2003. That was the strongest fourth-quarter nominal revenue growth since at least 1993