The legislative session ended last month, but tension persists between the governor and state lawmakers.

In late May, legislative leaders sent Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy a letter criticizing the Department of Revenue for, as the letter put it, obstructing the Legislature’s access to information on oil and gas taxes. Specifically, lawmakers have been trying to figure out if the state is getting the tax money it is owed.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, the last such review covered a time period from 2006 to 2011 and found the state was owed more than a billion dollars in taxes.

That review was in 2018. Dunleavy has been governor since then, and the administration has refused to give legislators the same information that previous administrations gave up willingly.

ADN report

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