TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas tax revenues in June came in $34.5 million below estimates, boosting the year’s total shortfall to $76.2 million and forcing officials to scramble to balance the ending fiscal 2016 budget.

The Kansas Department of Revenue on Friday announced it was withholding roughly $260 million from school districts’ June payment until July 7, but marking it as a June 30 payment.

Officials also were pulling $23.6 million from the state’s highway fund, the Kansas Department of Corrections and unspent money in the Children’s Initiatives Fund.

The moves will leave the state with a positive ending balance for the fiscal year that ended Thursday, as required by the state constitution.

Corporate income tax receipts in June came in $20.3 million, or 25.1 percent, below estimates and individual income tax receipts came in $17.9 million short, The Wichita Eagle reported.

“Unfortunately, Kansas is a part of a national trend with many states reporting reductions in revenue collections because of a weak economy,” Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan said. “Corporate income tax receipts are down nationally for 2015’s fourth quarter on an average of 9 percent, according to reports.”

Withholding school payments at the end of the fiscal year is a practice used over the past decade to balance year-end budgets. This year’s amount, however, was $75 million higher than it would have been without the shortfalls, said Dale Dennis, deputy education commissioner in charge of school finance.

The state already paid schools $317 million in general and supplemental aid in June.

Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, ranking Democrat on the Senate budget committee, said that when past administrations had to delay payments to school districts “there was more certainty the money would actually be coming in” the next month.

“That’s not certain anymore,” she said. “We fall short every month.”Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs (D-Kansas City) released the following statement: