The 2017-18 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 13, 2017 - Changes in federal tax policy could have some near –term benefit or costs to state tax revenues and taxpayers (and perhaps require new state tax legislation to conform to those federal policies). Other possible federal policy changes could affect the economy, reduce federal funding, or substantially increase state costs in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3669

Governor’s Proposed California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) Expansion [Publication Details]

Jun 4, 2019 - Governor’s Proposed California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) Expansion [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/4070

The 2018-19 May Revision: LAO Multiyear State Budget Outlook

May 17, 2018 - LAO Estimates Assume No Reduction in Sales Tax Rates. California has two statutes that trigger reductions in the state ’s sales tax rate if balances in the SFEU reach a certain threshold. Under either statute, the state ’s sales tax rate automatically would decline by one-quarter cent for one calendar year, equal to around $1.7  billion, reducing the SFEU by the same amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3843

Proposed statutory initiative to create a statewide public electrical utility. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2015 - In addition, while transferring the responsibility to provide electricity from private companies to a public entity would likely reduce certain state and local tax revenues (such as property tax and corporate income tax) because public entities often do not pay such taxes, it is uncertain how governments would respond to this potential reduction in tax revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-056

A Look at Voter-Approval Requirements for Local Taxes [Publication Details]

Mar 20, 2014 - A Look at Voter-Approval Requirements for Local Taxes [Publication Details] Video Description: For about 100 years, California’s local governments generally could raise taxes without directly securing their residents’ consent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2978

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - Step Two: Sales Tax Growth to IHSS. One of the permanent changes made to 1991 r ealignment in the 2017 ‑18 Budget Act was to prioritize the use of any increases in sales tax revenue for IHSS costs. As a result, any year ‑over ‑year increase in sales tax revenue first is allocated to counties ’ IHSS costs (through the Social Services Subaccount).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Budget Proposals

May 14, 2018 - (Our estimates of the other major sources of General Fund revenue —the sales tax and the corporation tax —together are somewhat lower than the administration ’s estimates, offsetting a small portion of our higher personal income tax estimates.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3834

Update on strong California capital gains tax collections in September

Sep 30, 2013 - This note provides an update on 2013-14 state revenues, particularly the state ’s personal income tax (PIT) and corporate tax collections. September is the first month of the fiscal year in which significant amounts of PIT and  corporate tax   “estimated payments ” are submitted to the state ’s Franchise Tax Board (FTB).
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/774

Administration’s trailer bill proposal related to future “triple flip” unwinding mechanism

Mar 15, 2013 - In addition, the triple flip mechanism replaces lost sales tax revenue with property taxes on a dollar for dollar bas is, indicating to our office that it was the intent of the Legislature to ensure that local governments were fully offset for their lost Bradley-Burns sales tax revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/727

Cap total compensation for executives and nonprofit hospitals. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2015 - The for-profit hospitals pay corporate income taxes to the state. Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from state corporate income taxes and local sales and property taxes. The tax exemptions for nonprofit hospitals are intended to allow them to use the funds that would have been paid in taxes to provide patient care,
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-100