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

Feb 28, 2025 - Figure  5 shows the differing effects of these two events by comparing the total percent change in employment levels for California and the U.S. since 2019. The impact of COVID ‑19 was similar in California and the U.S. overall, and employment bounced back in both cases by the end of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Subject to Legislative Appropriation $50.0 CDE Program or activities (such as physical security improvements and school ‑based mental health services) addressing risk factors for gun violence affecting K ‑12 students. 3 15.0 JC Court ‑based firearm relinquishment grant program to facilitate removal of firearms and ammunition from individuals who become prohibited from owning or possessing them
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - (To raise the same amount of money under the state ’s current taxable wage base of $7,000, the standard tax rate would need to be 5  percent, well above the state ’s current tax rate of 3.5  percent.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Overview of the State Small Business Credit Initiative [Publication Details]

Feb 13, 2024 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4843

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Estimating Characteristics of Low-Wage Workers In this section, we describe the method we use to construct the estimates displayed in Figures 2 through 5 in the post Who Are California’s Low-Wage Workers?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - For Low-Wage Workers, Gender Wage Gap Around 5  Percent to 10  Percent. As shown in Figure  4, we estimate the wage gap between California ’s male and female low-wage workers to be around 5  percent to 10  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  5, roughly half of low-wage workers work at least 40 hours per week at their primary jobs. (In the CPS, roughly 4  percent of California ’s low-wage workers indicate that they hold multiple jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule [Publication Details]

Feb 27, 2023 - Specifically, while the change would shift roughly $5 billion from 2023‑24 to 2024‑25, the change also would have the effect of shifting a similar amount from 2024‑25 to 2025‑26. As a result, the net impact on 2024‑25 and later years would minimal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4722

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - The revenue loss climbed to $13  million per year in 2021 and 2022, then dropped to $5  million in 2023. Trends in ZEB Adoption Statute Identifies Two Key Bus Purchase Outcomes. Assembly Bill 784 specified two “performance indicators ” for the ZEB exemption: The number of ZEBs purchased by transit agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - Based on our November revenue forecasts, this change would reduce General Fund revenues by roughly $5  billion in 2023 ‑24. Returning to the historical payment schedule would have little net effect on revenue in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722