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The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget includes nearly $3  billion in reductions, the largest of which is withdrawing a discretionary principal payment on state ’s unemployment insurance loan (which otherwise is paid by employers ’ payroll taxes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Proposition 15 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - Property taxes apply to many kinds of property. Land and buildings are taxed. Businesses also pay property taxes on most other things they own. This includes equipment, machinery, computers, and furniture.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=15&year=2020

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - The Constitution allows refunds of taxes to be excluded from appropriations subject to limit (see: Section 8(a) of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution). As a result, these types of tax refunds are scored as spending rather than revenue reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

Psilocybin legalization. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2021 - The amount of sales tax revenue collected would depend on the portion of sales that are not for medical, therapeutic, religious, or spiritual purposes, which would be exempt from sales tax under the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-005

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - The 2011 realignment shifted a portion of annual state sales tax revenue —which is expected to be nearly $2  billion in 2023 ‑24 —to counties to support the PRCS population as well as other adult criminal justice populations that were realigned in 2011.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - The measure also imposes a 10  percent tax on entities offering online sports wagering. This tax is applied to the amount of sports wagers made after deducting (1)  any wagers made with free bets or promotional credits (such as a wager made with funds provided by a gaming operator to a player as a promotion), (2)  players ’ winnings and prizes, and (3)  all federal gaming taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

2021-22 “Big Three” Revenue Outlook Update: February 2022 [EconTax Blog]

Feb 17, 2022 - We currently project that there is a very good chance that collections from the state ’s “big three ” taxes —personal income, sales, and corporation taxes —will exceed the Governor ’s Budget assumption of $185 billion in 2021-22 by at least several billion dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/725

Creating a new online university administered by the University of California (UC). [Ballot]

Dec 26, 2023 - (CCC also relies on local property tax revenue to cover these costs.) Figure 2 provides key fiscal information for each segment. In 2022-23, the three segments together received a total of $18.6 billion in state General Fund support and a total of $8.6 billion in student tuition revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-034

The State Appropriations Limit

Apr 21, 2021 - These are determined by first estimating proceeds of taxes from all state sources and then subtracting exclusions. Determine Proceeds of Taxes. All state proceeds of taxes are included in the limit regardless of their fund source.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4416

High-quality public education (Version 2). [Ballot]

May 16, 2023 - The remaining funding is from a combination of local property taxes and federal funding. State Law Regulates School Operations in Many Areas. For example, the law requires school district students to take standardized tests in several subjects, specifies the courses that students must complete to earn a high school dipl oma, and specifies the reasons a district may suspend or expel a student.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-002