State Tax Collections Update: April 2020 to July 2020 [EconTax Blog]

Aug 20, 2020 - PIT Payments for Investment and Business Income Beat Expectations for 2019 But Fell Behind Expectations for 2020. Final and extension payments —which in large part reflect taxes on investment and business income earned in 2019 —came in 13 percent ($2 billion) above projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/525

The 2024-25 Budget: Temporary Corporation Tax Increases [EconTax Blog]

May 17, 2024 - Suspensions Would Not Occur If Tax Collections Beat Expectations. The proposal includes language to stop the suspensions from taking effect if total collections from income, corporation, and sales taxes beat budget assumptions by three percent or more across May 2024 to April 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/804

Updated "Big Three" Revenue Outlook [EconTax Blog]

Aug 21, 2023 - Expect Collections to Continue to Beat Projections … Driven by this strong growth, major tax collections in December and January exceeded Governor ’s Budget projections by about $6 billion. Income taxes accounted for all of these surplus collections (a portion of the income tax strength showed up under the corporation tax as elective pass-through entity taxes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/777

Updated "Big Three" Revenue Outlook [EconTax Blog]

Aug 21, 2023 - Expect Collections to Continue to Beat Projections … Driven by this strong growth, major tax collections in December and January exceeded Governor ’s Budget projections by about $6 billion. Income taxes accounted for all of these surplus collections (a portion of the income tax strength showed up under the corporation tax as elective pass-through entity taxes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/777

The 2021-22 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - Revenues would need to beat our expectations by $ 5  b illion in 2021 ‑22 and $ 35  b illion in 2024 ‑25 for the budget to break even. The figure below shows where the breakeven point falls in our likely range of revenue outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4297

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - On the other hand, if a market downturn does not occur, revenues very likely will beat our forecast. Should this occur, we advise the Legislature to treat these extra revenues as temporary for the time  being. $18 Billion Budget Problem in 2026‑27 2025 ‑26 Budget Act Anticipated Deficits Through the Multiyear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

November 2016 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

Dec 2, 2016 - Specifically, PIT withholding came in at $4.5 billion, beating administration projections by $502 million, or over 12%. Through the first five months of 2016-17, withh olding has exceeded administration projections by $573 million, or about 3%.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/219

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - The Insurance Commissioner would decide what home-hardening standards would need to be me t. An insurer could ask the Insurance Commissioner to waive this requirement if the insurer already covers a lot of homes in places with high wildfire risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

^[PDF] Santa Barbara County Annual Training Seminar

LET ME BEG IN VHTH THE CHANGING NATUqE OF INTEREST GROUPS, II. THt FRAGMENTATION OF INTEREST GROUPS A, G~ovm- 1 IN THE Nur"1!3ER oF INTEREST GRo_uPs 1. lNTEREST GROUPS HAVE AL~}.YS BEEN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE LEGI SLATIVE PROCESS, 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1984/santa_barbara_county_annual_training_seminar.pdf

Initiative Analyses

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https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiatives?page=67