The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Second, any unawarded credits from the previous fiscal year can be added to the pool of available credits for the current fiscal year. Credit Pool Has Ballooned to over $923  million for the Current Year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

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

Feb 19, 2026 - The Commission determined that Los Angeles County incurred reimbursable costs processing deferment requests and adding the required disclosure to property tax bills. The Commission determined that the county incurred a total amount of about $30,000 in back-year costs (incurred between 2022 and 2024), and about $8,000 in ongoing costs thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - One-sixth paid less than $1 per resident. Another two-thirds paid $1 to $20 per resident. One-eighth paid $20 to $80 per resident. A small but nontrivial portion —1.7  percent —paid more than $120 per resident.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget permanently shifts DCC costs for illicit enforcement activities and the California Track-and-Trace program from the Cannabis Control Fund (CCF) —which receives revenues from fees paid by cannabis businesses —to the Cannabis Tax Fund (CTF) —which receives revenues from cannabis sales taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - As Figure  10 shows with some illustrative numbers, this employment tax raises the cost of adding a new employee to a business and that cost is proportionately higher for a low wage worker than a high wage worker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Chapter  231 directs that these excise tax monies be paid to CDTFA. After deducting CDTFA ’s costs, monies are to be deposited into a new state special fund —the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety (GVPSS) Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - This 1. 5  p ercent rate is lower than the 8. 84  p ercent rate paid by “C corporations, ” whose income (other than dividends paid to shareholders) is not taxed at the individual level. Federal Deduction for State and Local Taxes Limited to $10,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

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

Feb 28, 2023 - In particular, our review focuses on studies that (1)  account for the fact that some productions would have selected the same location even without a tax credit, (2)  consider both direct economic effects (such as wage paid to production workers) and indirect economic effects (such as wages paid to workers at businesses supporting motion picture production), and (3)  avoid the use of statistical methods known to be unreliable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

Tax Credit Expansions in the American Rescue Plan

Apr 13, 2021 - Federal EITC The federal EITC is a provision of the federal income tax code that allows filers with total income below a certain level to reduce their tax liability by an amount that depends on their earnings from paid work or self-employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4410