The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Expand Business Quick Start Guides. For many years, GO ‑Biz has been producing pamphlets with information to help entrepreneurs set up different kinds of businesses. The proposal would provide $600,000, one time in 2022 ‑23, and $200,000 ongoing to translate the existing guides into languages other than English, expand the number of guides, and to maintain the guides over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - To construct each figure in the posts, we use one of two different strategies to address this item nonresponse problem, depending on the type of statistic we are trying to estimate. The following sections describe these strategies in more detail.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What strategies do CDTFA and other law enforcement partners use to address these avenues for tax evasion? Why has the number of tobacco inspections declined so much? We have seen workload trends presented in terms of total inspections, seizures, citations, and appeals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2018-19 May Revision: LAO Revenue Outlook

May 12, 2018 - As wages and salaries make up about two-thirds of income (as seen in the tax guide on page 6 ), this growth is a key driver of our outlook for the PIT. Capital Gains Spike in 2017-18 and 2018-19. Preliminary Franchise Tax Board data show that net capital gains in 2016 totaled $110 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3830

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Understanding Proposition 218 [Publication Details]

Dec 17, 1996 - The purpose of this guide is to help the Legislature, local officials, and other parties understand Proposition 218, including the actions local governments must take to implement it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/658

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - State law requires, however, that each region ’s allocation methodology be consistent with their Sustainable Community Strategy —a state ‑mandated long ‑range regional strategy to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions through transportation and land use planning.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3605

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates

Mar 1, 2018 - While the administration could use specific criteria or categories to guide its determinations (for example, “exclude benefit increases from the workload budget ”), it would still need to make individual assessments about every legislative change to determine whether it fits those criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3765

Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - The Legislature may consider requiring GO ‑Biz to develop a focused outreach strategy aimed at further increasing awareness of the California Competes program, especially among out ‑of ‑state businesses that may be considering expanding in or relocating to California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4213

Cal Facts 2018 [Publication Details]

Dec 6, 2018 - With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, quickly summarizing how its economy or state budget works is impossible. Instead, Cal Facts is a visual guide—using a variety of different charts—to the state's economy, revenues, and major program trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3905