In this booklet, Comptroller Daniel Hynes lays out a plan for structural changes to improve Illinois finances. His plan includes recommendations for controlled growth in state spending, saving for a rainy day, and paying down our debts. It also proposes truth-in-budgeting of revenues and expenditures to present a truer financial picture of state finances to our citizens and decision-makers.
Illinois Department of Revenue publication FY 2003-01 Changes for Form RUT-50, Informational Bulletin To: All Form RUT-50 Filers and Persons or Businesses who Provide Assistance with the Completion of Form RUT-50. We have revised Form RUT-50, Vehicle Use Tax Transaction Return, because we have updated our processing system for this form. The laws on which the form is based have not changed so requirements for reporting and filing are the same. The instructions for filing Form RUT-50, which are now printed on the back of Page 2, reflect all of the changes we have made.
Harvest of light geese during the 2002 Illinois Conservation Action was estimated at 17,875 geese, a decrease or 18,955 geese from the 2001 harvest of 36,830. Participation increased to 5,107 hunters during 2002 compared to 4,665 hunters during 2001. Hunters spent an estimated 31,204 days afield during 2002, a decrease of 1,430 from the 32,634 days hunted during 2001. Unplugged shotguns were the method used most often (67%); however electronic calls and hunting after sunset were also used by more than 50% of hunters (62% and 54%, respectively). As with hunters responding to the 2001 survey, hunters who did not participate in the conservation action reported no geese in the area and no place to hunt as well as not interested as the main reasons they did not hunt light geese.