Updated Unemployment Insurance Fund Forecast Shows Structural Deficit [EconTax Blog]

Jul 7, 2023 - Employers pay regular UI payroll taxes into the fund. These payroll taxes are used to pay out benefits. In January and May each year, EDD publishes a two-year forecast of UI benefits, UI payroll tax receipts, and other key fiscal information related to the state ’s UI Trust Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/779

Groundwater Preservation and Water Consumer Awareness Act of 2015 [Ballot]

Jun 9, 2015 - In recent years, local governments, such as cities, counties, and water districts, have spent about $26  billion per year to supply water and to treat wastewater. About 80  percent of this spending is paid for by ratepayers of water and sewer bills.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-021

U.S. Retail Sales Update: January 2022 [EconTax Blog]

Feb 16, 2022 - U.S. retail sales (seasonally adjusted) grew 3.8 percent from December to January. Retail sales have been elevated after growing dramatically in early 2021, but inflation has offset most of the past year’s apparent “growth.”
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/724

^[PDF] Teale Data Center, 309 STRF,l86 STRS,l84 Administration, 186

Teale Data Center, 309 STRF,l86 STRS,l84 Administration, 186 Purchasing Power Protection, 187 Student Aid Commission, 1047 Subsequent Injuries, Workers' Compensation Benefits for, 1108 Substandard Housing Tax Relief, 1183 Summary of Capital Outlay, 1201 Superior Court, Salaries of Judges, 26 Supreme Court, 20 Tahoe Conservancy, California, 319 Capital Outlay, 1227 Tahoe Regional
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1990/17_index_1990.pdf

^[PDF] A Primer California’s Tax System California’s Tax System

Some counties also levy the UUT. Tax rates are set by the governing body and range from 0.5 percent to 12 percent. Local govern- ment UUT revenues totaled more than $1.3 billion in 1997-98. Business License Tax The business license tax (BLT) is a type of excise tax imposed on businesses for the privilege of operating within a city or county.
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/tax_primer/0101_taxprimer.pdf

The Uncertain Affordable Care Act Landscape: What It Means for California

Feb 17, 2017 - As previously discussed, with the adoption of the ACA, California shifted a portion of the costs of providing health care to low ‑income, uninsured residents from the counties to the state, and redirected a portion of county health care funding to pay for other state priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3569

LAO 2006 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on State Revenues

This is a uniform local tax rate of 1.25 percent levied by all counties (the so-called Bradley-Burns rate). Of this total, 0.25 percent is deposited into county transportation funds, while the remaining 1 percent is allocated to city and county governments for their general purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/2006_pandi/pi_03_anl06.html

Theft crimes. [Ballot]

Jan 12, 2022 - County Jail and/or Community Supervision.  People who have no current or past convictions for serious, violent, or sex crimes are typically sentenced to county jail or supervision in the community by a county probation off icer, or both.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-041

^[PDF] Common Sense Act of 2010

It could also reduce the number of persons placed on county probation or state parole. The county jail savings would be offset to the extent that jail beds no longer needed for marijuana offenders were used for other criminals who are now being released early because of a lack of jail space.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090516.pdf

An Overview of the 1995-96 Governor's Budget

Resources provided to counties would fall short of costs shifted to them by this amount, which the budget proposes to offset with county savings from proposed mandate relief legislation. Revenues. Budgeted revenues reflect a reduction of $225 million in 1995-96 due to the first year of a phased three-year reduction in personal and corporate income taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/012095_bud_overview/pb012095.html