The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - This share is higher in some counties, such as Mendocino (9  percent), San Luis Obispo (7  percent), El Dorado (6  percent), Sonoma (6  percent), and Santa Barbara (5  percent). Figure  3 reports our estimates of these fiscal effects by county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - March 9, 2026 Chas Alamo State Budget Is Heavily Reliant on Stock Market Earnings. California 's progressive income tax system is heavily reliant on stock market earnings because the state has concentrated its tax collections among high-income earners whose incomes are most tied to the stock market through capital gains, equity compensation, and investment returns.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - March 9, 2026 Chas Alamo State Budget Is Heavily Reliant on Stock Market Earnings. California 's progressive income tax system is heavily reliant on stock market earnings because the state has concentrated its tax collections among high-income earners whose incomes are most tied to the stock market through capital gains, equity compensation, and investment returns.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

^[PDF] Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Proposition 58 allowed these deposits to be suspended by an executive order issued by the Governor. Between 2004 and 2014 only two transfers were made to the BSA under the provisions of Proposition 58.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3769/prepare-for-recession-030718.pdf

Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - By most measures, the recession of the early 1990s was more severe than the dot ‑com bust in the early 2000s. For example, unemployment in California reached 9. 7  p ercent in mid ‑ to late ‑1992, but peaked at 6. 9  p ercent after the dot ‑com bust.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

^[PDF] CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing

CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing Moving Toward Self-Sufficiency: Allowable Activities LAO 60 YEARS OF SERVICE L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E March 9, 2005 3 " One-Parent Family: A family is eligible for the one-parent com- ponent of the program if it includes a child who is financially needy due to the death, incapacity, or continued absence
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2005/CalWORKs_program_030905.pdf

^[PDF] Funding and Implementation of the 2009 Delta Legislation

Major Components of the Governor’s Budget Proposal 9L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E March 9, 2010 The budget proposes $49.1 million and 58 positions for the council, of which 50 are positions transferred by statute from other various state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2010/Funding_and_Implementation_of_the_2009_Delta_Legislation_3910.pdf

^[PDF] THE ECONOMIC AND FISCAL IMPACTS OF CALIFORNIA'S AIRCRAFT GROUND TIME EXEMPTION

Tables 1 and 2 provide a breakdown distributed by county and by airline, respectively, of the 1972-73 base-year revenue losses com- puted by the Board of Equalization. The cost to the state for total local reimbursements over the six-year period of the legislation is shown in Table 3, and Table 4 shows the 1977-78 reimbursements by county.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1979/02_fiscal_impacts_of_californias_aircraft_ground_time_exemption.pdf

^[PDF] California's Tax Expenditure Programs: Income Taxes

Corporations may choose to file their taxes based upon either a calendar-year or fiscal- year basis (which in the latter case, com- mences in any month other than January). Corporations calculate tax liabilities based upon a process similar to that described above for PIT filers.
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/tax_expenditure_299/tep_299_income_tax.pdf