Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - Personal Income Tax Is Dominant State Revenue Source. The personal income tax (PIT) is the state ’s tax on most sources of individual income, including: salaries and wages, proprietor and partnership income, capital gains, dividends and interest, and retirement distributions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769

Voter Requirements for Local Taxes [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2018 - Voter Requirements for Local Taxes [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3773

A Look at County Level Domestic Migration [EconTax Blog]

Mar 5, 2018 - In contrast, out-migration from the San Francisco Bay Area was comparably lower—led by Santa Clara County, which was the state’s only major county to experience net domestic in-migration over the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/269

February 2018 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

Mar 2, 2018 - February 2018 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog] Seth Kerstein This post describes preliminary collections from the state ’s three main taxes —the personal income tax (PIT), sales and use tax, and the corporation tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/268

The 2018-19 Budget: Fire Recovery Proposals

Mar 1, 2018 - For some past disaster events, the state has funded other types of recovery assistance, such as support for emergency shelters and transitional housing, limited financial assistance to certain individuals facing disaster loses, staff and supplies for emergency evacuation centers, and reimbursements to counties for lost property taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3767

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates

Mar 1, 2018 - These funds were dedicated to several uses, including to trial courts for construction and operations and to counties for new voting systems. All of this proposed spending is included in the administration’s workload budget for 2018‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3765

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates [Publication Details]

Mar 1, 2018 - Proposition 55 (2016) aimed to increase funding for Medi-Cal under a formula administered by the Department of Finance. In 2018-19, the first year of implementation of this calculation, the administration’s interpretations and estimates result in no additional funds to Medi-Cal. Two key choices lead to this result. First, the administration’s decision to subtract $3.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3765

The 2018-19 Budget: Fire Recovery Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 1, 2018 - For 2018‑19, the Governor proposes a total of $35 million from the General Fund for recovery costs associated the fires in Northern California, such as related to rebuilding public infrastructure and backfilling local tax revenue losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3767

The 2018-19 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 27, 2018 - Some larger local agencies, such as the Los Angeles County Fire Department, provide their own wildfire protection. However, many agencies mostly respond to structure fires rather than wildfires. In addition, the U.S.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3762

History of Special Education Funding in California

Feb 27, 2018 - Mental Health Services Counties, Not Schools, Were Once Responsible for Student Mental Health. Between 1984 and 2011, state law held county mental health departments primarily responsible for providing mental health services to students in special education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764