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[PDF] LAO Report Public Transportation Account: Options to Address Projected Shortfall

Sales Taxes on Diesel and Gasoline Two Main Sources of PTA Revenues. The state currently collects for state expenditure purposes a 5 percent sales tax on all goods sold in California. The TDA designates a portion of these revenues to the PTA, with the remaining sales tax revenues deposited in the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/010400_pta/010499_pta.pdf

Supplements E&F: California Tax Policy and the Internet

California has delegated to cities and counties the franchising authority over cable companies, whose fee paym ents represent an unrestricted revenue source. • Utility-User Tax --this is a gross proceeds tax levied by some local governments on cable television services, and other utilities such as telephone, gas, and electric services.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/013100_inet_tax/013100_internet_sup3.html

Reconsidering AB 8: Exploring Alternative Ways to Allocate Property Taxes

Because of differential rates across counties, this tax cut would reduce the sales tax rate in Los A ngeles County from 8.25 percent to 7 percent, and in Butte County from 7.25 percent to 6 percent. This composite sales tax reduction of 1.25 percent would come from cutting the: State's sales tax rate by three-quarters of a cent.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/020300_ab8/020300_ab8.html

The State Appropriations Limit

With regard to nonschool local entities (that is, cities, counties, and special districts), however, there is considerable room available. There are a few examples of local entities that have reached or exceeded their limits during the past two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/041300_gann/041300_gann.html

[PDF] LAO The State Appropriations Limit

With regard to nonschool local entities (that is, cities, counties, and special districts), however, there is considerable room available. There are a few examples of local entities that have reached or exceeded their limits during the past two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/041300_gann/041300_gann.pdf

Traveling in California: Transportation Revenues and Expenditures Part I

A 1.25 percent uniform rate is levied in all counties. Of this total, 1 percent is allocated to cities and counties for general purposes, while the remaining 0.25 percent is dedicated to transportation. • Optional Local Tax Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/051100_cal_travels/051100_cal_travels_finance.html

Traveling in California:Trends and Mobility (II)

Fares and Local Funds Comprise the Bulk of Transit Revenues 1998-99 Estimated • Transit services are funded by a combination of passenger fares and local, state, and federal funds. • Local funds such as local sales tax revenues provide the largest source of operating funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/051100_cal_travels/051100_cal_travels_trends-2.html

California's Changing Income Distribution

The growth in statewide income disparity has also coincided with an expanding income gap between the higher-income coastal counties and lower-income inland counties of the state. T his partly reflects the fact that a majority of jobs in the state's rapidly growing high-tech industries are located in coastal counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/0800_inc_dist/0800_income_distribution.html

Cal Update, April 2000

Cash receipts during the December-through-March period were up from the budget by $2.3 billion, reflecting particularly large gains in personal income tax receipts, but also sizable increases in sales and corporate tax collections.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/cal_update/apr_00/april00_update.html

[PDF] California Is the World's Sixth Largest Economy

This has especially eroded affordability in the Bay Area, Orange County, and San Diego. The statewide median price of a single-family home has risen from $175,000 in 1996 to about $245,000 as of mid-2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/calfacts/2000_calfacts_economy.pdf