California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Whether the worker graduated from high school. Whether the worker lives in Los Angeles County. Whether the worker belongs to a union. Whether the worker works in the manufacturing industry. Whether the worker holds multiple jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Most notably, the Governor provides a combined $ 900  m illion for six programs aimed at improving school employee training, recruitment, and retention. The budget also provides $ 600  m illion for two new grant programs: (1) $ 300  m illion for grants to help low ‑performing schools and districts improve their performance and (2) $ 300  m illion for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Feb 11, 2022 - The total request is for $450 million General Fund, over three years: $100 million in 2023‑24, $100 million in 2024‑25, and $150 million in 2025‑26. Proposal Lacks Important Details. This  proposal does not provide a detailed justification for the amount of funding requested or the criteria that would be used to make the grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Tax Changes

Oct 5, 2020 - Prior law exempted new corporations from the minimum franchise tax in their first year of business. The budget package expands this exemption to LLCs and certain partnerships in their first year. This expanded exemption expire s in 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4270

The 2022-23 Budget: Federal Tax Conformity for Federal Business Assistance

Jan 26, 2022 - In addition, estimating in which years the revenue losses would occur is difficult. This is because most of the businesses that would benefit from conforming to the federal tax tr eatment of these grants have operating losses and will not owe taxes this year, or perhaps for several years.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4501

Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - A prior requirement that 25  p ercent of the credits be reserved for small businesses —defined as having under $ 2  m illion in annual revenue —was eliminated. Chapter  52 also reduced the total amount of new credits that GO ‑Biz may allocate in any fiscal year, from $ 200  m illion to $ 180  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4213

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - The state can meet SAL  requirements through a variety of actions, such as lowering revenues from certain taxes, spending more on excludable purposes (for example, tax refunds, capital outlay, and subventions to local governments), and/or providing tax rebates and additional payments to schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

The 2020-21 Budget: Expanding the Minimum Franchise Tax Exemption

Mar 23, 2020 - About 25  p ercent of new companies do not file a timely corporate tax return in their first year of business. We are concerned that the exemption itself may be confusing new companies that might infer that they are not required to file a tax return because they are exempt from the minimum franchise tax in their first year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4207

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit [Publication Details]

Feb 28, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit [Publication Details] Description: This brief surveys research on the economic effects of state film tax credits and analyzes the Governor's proposal to extend California's film tax credit for five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4713

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - The state uses bonds primarily to pay for the planning, construction, and renovation of infrastructure projects such as bridges, dams, prisons, parks, schools, and office buildings. The state is prohibited from borrowing money to finance state operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331