How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Additionally, limits on the use of tax credits by businesses will contribute to further fluctuations in the fiscal effect of the program in the current decade. Parallel Grant Program Added in Some Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: State Mandate—Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation

Feb 19, 2026 - The Commission determined that Los Angeles County incurred reimbursable costs processing deferment requests and adding the required disclosure to property tax bills. The Commission determined that the county incurred a total amount of about $30,000 in back-year costs (incurred between 2022 and 2024), and about $8,000 in ongoing costs thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - Using Resources Efficiently. A core principle of efficient budgeting is to use money that has the least valuable alternative use. Departments ’ unspent General Fund appropriations eventually revert to the General Fund, and the administration can accelerate these reversions if desired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

Understanding California’s Sales Tax [Publication Details]

May 6, 2015 - This report begins with an overview of California’s sales and use tax. It then provides more detail about which transactions are subject to this tax, the variation in tax rates across the state, the distribution of revenue among state and local governments, and revenue growth over the last few decades. (5/12/15: Correction made to expiry date of manufacturing equipment exemption.) (5/12/15: Correction made to difference in sales tax for gasoline.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3244

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Sales Tax Exemption for Bunker Fuel

Nov 19, 2025 - As suggested by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, we use nationwide estimates of residual fuel oil consumption from the Energy Information Administration and assume that California ’s share of fuel consumption is proportional to its share of U.S. port tonnage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5094

Comparing Taxes on Cannabis to Taxes on Other Products in California

Dec 17, 2019 - Instead, the unit-based tax on cannabis applies to the one thing all cannabis products have in common —the plant used to make them. State Retail Excise Tax. This ad valorem tax is based loosely on retail prices of cannabis products.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4123

Volatility of California’s Personal Income Tax Structure

Sep 28, 2017 - One such measure is average deviation (AD), which was also used in our previous report . AD summarizes how annual observations deviate from the average annual compounded growth rate over a period of years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3703