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

Feb 15, 2022 - Short ‑Term vs. 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

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) Regulation Conventional Buses vs. ZEBs. The ZEB exemption, the ICT regulation, and various other policies make a distinction between conventional buses and ZEBs. Conventional buses burn diesel, compressed natural gas, or other fuels that emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - Apply Means Testing. Another option is to require means testing to determine eligibility for the exclusion. The Legislature could set an income threshold under which a child ’s income would have to fall to be eligible for the inheritance exclusion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

Taxation of Sugary Drinks

Nov 26, 2018 - Example: First 5 California. First 5 California —which funds services for children under 5 years old —receives the vast majority of its funding from tobacco taxes. As shown in the top panel of Figure  6 , the number of births in California —the main factor determining the number of children served by First 5 —has remained roughly constant over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3903

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We assess the pseudo-out-of-sample prediction errors for each specification using the monthly CPS from January to December 2022 as our training set and the monthly CPS from January to December 2023 as our test set.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - First, testing labs verify the potency of cannabis products. (As we understand it, these tests rarely find substantial differences between labeled and actual cannabinoid content. More commonly, products fail lab tests for other reasons, such as high levels of pesticides.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - In contrast, competitors allocate credits on a first ‑come, first ‑served system or simply as an uncapped entitlement. Additionally, California tends to have more requirements and restrictions on the use of tax credits than other competitors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - First, some firms lack tax liability in California due to ongoing and substantial use of other tax deductions and credits, most commonly the Research & Development Tax Credit and the Net Operating Loss deduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2024-25 Budget: Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Feb 20, 2024 - Loans are made to public agencies on a first-come, first-served basis. To fund its loans, ISRF sells revenue bonds which are repaid from loan payments from public agencies. Over the last five years, ISRF has made, on average, around $50 million in loans per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4846

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

Feb 19, 2026 - Chapter  712 required property owners to request a deferment from the county within one year of receiving their first tax bill for the property, but before January 1, 2024. Additionally, Chapter  712 required Los Angeles County to print a disclosure on tax bills that provides a “brief summary ” of both the property tax relief under Proposition  19 and Chapter  712 ’s property tax deferment provisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130