Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Chapter  114 of 2021 (S B  144 , Portantino) required our office to issue a report summarizing the workforce diversity information collected by the California Film Commission (CFC) and evaluate the effectiveness of the tax credit for increasing diversity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the Governor ’s budget, the minimum guarantee is up $ 302  m illion in 2018 ‑19 and $ 517  m illion in 2019 ‑ 20 c ompared to the estimates from the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package. For 2020 ‑21, the administration estimates the minimum guarantee is $ 84  b illion, an increase of $2. 5  b illion ( 3  p ercent) over the revised 2019 ‑ 20 l evel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - As of November 2019, 1, 043 c redit agreements had been negotiated and approved. The companies that have tax credit agreements can only claim a credit after they have met the specified amounts of hiring and investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4213

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Chapter   677 o f 2012 (S B  1128 , Padilla) prohibits CAEATFA from approving more than $ 100  m illion of exclusions in any calendar year. This cap has become more binding over time. Before 2019, exclusions were available for most of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

Evaluation of the Better for Families Tax Refund [Publication Details]

Apr 1, 2024 - Submitted in accordance with Section 7(b)(1) of Chapter 51 of 2022 (AB 192, Committee on Budget) that directs our office to evaluate the extent to which the Better for Families tax refund helped families meet the demands of inflation during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4891

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - As  shown in Figure  4 , the state began this period in Schedule C but quickly moved to Schedule F+, the highest tax schedule, where it has remained since. Tax System Had No Room to Work in the Great Recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - Jackson, C. Kirabo, Rucker C. Johnson, and Claudia Persico. “The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms. ” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 131.1 (2016): 157 ‑218.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

The 2020-21 Budget: Taxation of E-Cigarettes

Feb 24, 2020 - Packs typically contain 20 c igarettes and thus require a $2. 87 t ax stamp. A second, less common type of pack contains 25 c igarettes and requires a $3. 59 t ax stamp. As a result, the vendor needs to produce just two denominations of stamps, and taxpayers can comply with the tax by affixing just one stamp to each pack.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4171

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Accordingly, as described below, our wage percentile estimates are b ased on the Arellano and Bonhomme (2017) approach. Exclusion Restrictions. In this context, the two main parts of the Arellano and Bonhomme (2017) model are (1)  a set of equations that predict the conditional quantiles of the wage distribution, and (2)  an equation that predicts whether each worker responds to the survey ’s wage questions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

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

Jan 26, 2022 - Chapter  39 of 2020 (A B  1577 , Burke) and Chapter  17 of 2021 (A B  80 , Burke) partially conformed state tax laws to the federal treatment of forgiven PPP loans and EIDL advance grants. Taxpayers that are publicly traded companies or did not have at least a 25  percent reduction in gross receipts are excluded from this provision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4501