California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Another Weakness: Measurement Error. Even when survey participants respond to questions, their responses sometimes do not provide totally accurate information about their wages or other characteristics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Federal Pressure to Avoid Errors Creates Incentive to Conduct Lengthy Reviews. The federal government is the primary funder of EDD ’s costs to administer the UI program. As such, EDD faces pressure to meet the federal government ’s goal of upholding “program integrity ” by eliminating errors, overpayments, and fraud.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program

Mar 27, 2017 - As with any statistical analysis in public finance, our results are subject to some level of estimation and measurement error. We also only had data on taxable property values for the first two years of SCAPAP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3632

The 2017-18 Budget: An Overview of the Governor's Proposition 56 Proposals

Feb 22, 2017 - The administration plans to correct this error in the May Revision and estimates this backfill to be $4.2  million. $1.1   Million for Tax Administration in 2017 ‑18. The Governor ’s Budget proposes to spend $1.1  million for BOE to administer the new taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

The 2019-20 Budget: Tax Conformity

Mar 6, 2019 - By using the federal definition of income as a starting point to calculate state tax liability, states may reduce the compliance burden on tax filers and reduce errors. Additionally, referring to federal tax laws allows state administrators and filers alike to rely on federal regulations, judicial rulings, and tax filer guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3959

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - We note that in preparing these estimates, FTB has assumed that it would be required to perform robust fraud and error prevention, outreach, and education activities for each option. The amount of focus FTB assumes for these activities may differ from what would be included in a legislative package to modify the tax credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417