New Inflation Poses Not So New Budget Risk

Dec 15, 2022 - This means that a portion of any inflation created by the tax rebate program will be exported to the rest of the U.S. Once dissipated across the nearly $26  trillion U.S. economy, California ’s $9.5  billion in tax refunds represent, at most, a trivial contribution to broader inflationary pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4653

April 2018: Personal Income Tax Tracker [EconTax Blog]

May 2, 2018 - April 2018: Personal Income Tax Tracker [EconTax Blog] Carolyn Chu April is a major revenue month for the state. This post includes two graphs that track the state ’s progress in meeting the administration ’s January 2018 projection for April personal income tax receipts.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/273

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 13, 2019 - Specifically, we advise the Legislature to seriously consider renewing the managed care organization tax, despite the Governor not proposing to do so; present issues for consideration related to the Governor's proposed expansion of comprehensive Medi-Cal coverage for young adults regardless of immigration status; and provide an initial assessment of the Governor's proposals to use Proposition 56 funding in Medi-Cal to extend and expand provider payment increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3935

^[PDF] 1947 Budget Analysis: SECTION II

Highways and Streets: Apportionments to Counties for County Roads; Plans and Rights of Way for Postwar County Highway Construction; Allocation to Cities for City Streets. Other Purposes: Salaries of Superior Court Judges; Apportionment to County Agricultural Fairs; Apportionment of Liquor License Fees; Apportionment of Motor Vehicle License Fees (ill lieu tax).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1947/04_section_2_1947.pdf

U.S. Retail Sales: April 2020 [EconTax Blog]

May 18, 2020 - Although these data are not specific to California, they can help us understand the likely effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on revenues from the sales and use tax, a key state and local revenue source.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/466

Voting rights for individuals in prison and under parole supervision. [Ballot]

Oct 12, 2017 - In some counties, the county sheriff picks up the ballots from the county registrar and delivers the ballots to the jail, returning the ballots to the registrar once completed. In other counties, inmates simply receive and return their vote-by-mail ballots via the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-023

^[PDF] Overview of State Homelessness Programs

Background and Funding (Continued) 3L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E February 25, 2016  Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Both the federal government and the state provide tax credits to affordable housing builders to help fi nance their projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/Econ/2016/Overview-State-Homelessness-Programs-022516.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Budget Analysis: Judiciary & Criminal Justice Chapter

The local share will be further split between the counties and specified cities. Under the terms of the MOU, the state’s 58 counties will receive 90 percent of the local share, or $11.25 billion. These monies will be dis- tributed to the counties based on population.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/crim_justice/crim_just_anl99.pdf

Proposition 3 [Ballot]

Nov 6, 2018 - These investors would be repaid with interest using the state ’s General Fund tax revenues. The cost of these bonds would depend on various factors —such as the interest rates in effect at the time they are sold, the timing of bond sales, and the time period over which they are repaid.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=3&year=2018

^[PDF] The 2013-14 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

To rebench accurately for RDA dissolution, the state must calculate the resulting increase in property tax revenues for schools and colleges. In the initial years after RDA dissolution, the state easily can calculate this effect based on the amount of residual RDA revenues annually transferred to schools and community colleges by the county auditor, as
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/2013/education/prop-98/prop-98-022113.pdf