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[PDF] Overview of the Governor's Budget 1993-94

As incomes fall, the state’s progressive tax structure takes a smaller share of income in taxes. When economic recovery occurs and raises incomes, on the other hand, the tax burden will tend to rebound to former levels because of this progressive tax structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/1993/Overview_Gov_Budget_170_0193.pdf

The California Class Size Reduction Act

A uniform tax rate of 1.25  percent is levied in all counties, and local governments are authorized to levy an optional additional tax not to exceed 1.5  percent. Currently, total sales tax rates range from 7.25  percent to 8.5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990890_INT.html

2003 Initiative Analysis: Budget Accountability Act

Similarly, the lower vote requirement would make it easier in some years to approve temporary tax increases related to the budget. In su ch cases, the measure would result in higher tax revenues ( and state spending ) than otherwise would have occurred.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2003/030553.htm

[PDF] California's Enterprise Zone Programs

The number of employees claimed to be employed on tax returns grew from 24,190 to 140,833 between 1999 and 2010. In 2010, over 54,000 were claimed as “new” employees.  In 2010, the hiring and sales tax credits resulted in $698 million of reduced corporation and personal income tax revenues for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2013/CA-EZ-Programs-050913.pdf

Transportation Investment Fund

The TIF will expire June 30, 2006, and these gasoline sales tax revenues will thereafter remain in the General Fund and will be available for vari ous transportation and nontransportation purposes. Fiscal Effect The measure would transfer on a permanent basis beginning 2006-07, state gasoline sales tax revenues that are deposited in the General Fund to transportation-related purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/010467_INT.htm

Initiative Analyses

File No. 2009-095 The McCauley-Rosen Wealth Tax and Oceans Preservation Act The measure institutes a state wealth tax that levies a new tax on the net assets of state residents as of January 2010 equal to roughly 40 percent on the first $2.5 million of wea lth and 55 percent on amounts in excess of $2.5 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiatives?page=35

[PDF] 1995 Budget Perspectives and Issues

This is defined as the 1986-87 percentage of General Fund tax revenues provided to K-14 education (as adjusted by property tax shifts that have occurred in the 1990s). ! Test 2—Maintenance of Prior-Year Funding Levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1995/1995-96_perspectives_issues.pdf

[PDF] California Spending Plan 2004-05: The Budget Act and Related Legislation

Tax Amnesty The adopted budget enacts a tax amnesty program that applies to major General Fund taxes—the personal income tax, corporation tax, and sales and use tax. The amnesty program will occur during the period February 1, 2005 through March 31, 2005, and apply to tax years prior to 2003.
https://lao.ca.gov/2004/spend_plan_04/0904_spend_plan.pdf

[PDF] Six Californias

Mainly because Silicon Valley residents have higher incomes, they pay more per person in income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes under the existing California tax system. By the same token, Central California and Jefferson residents are, on average, less well-off and pay less per person for each of these major taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2013/130771.pdf

Proposition 63: Mental Health Services Expansion and Funding. Tax on Incomes Over $1 Million.

The tax is levied on both residents and nonresidents, with the latter paying taxes on income derived only from California sources. Tax rates range from 1  percent to 9.3  percent, depending on a taxpayer’s income level.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/63_11_2004.htm