The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - Annual reduction of $49  million to transportation funding that the state provides to cities and counties for work on their local streets and roads. State transportation funding suballocated to cities and counties for these purposes is projected to be around $3.9  billion annually —meaning this proposal would result in a reduction of about 1   percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

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

Feb 19, 2026 - Additionally, Chapter  712 required Los Angeles County to print a disclosure on tax bills that provides a “brief summary ” of both the property tax relief under Proposition  19 and Chapter  712 ’s property tax deferment provisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - Like community engagement requirements, more frequent renewals are also expected to increase administrative workload for county eligibility systems, at least in the short run. Federal Changes for Certain Immigrant Groups Create State Fiscal Pressure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - Impact to Counties Counties Will Face Costs From New Workload Demands … Counties are the primary administrators of eligibility determinations in Medi ‑Cal and will be responsible for implementing many of the eligibility changes in H.R.  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

Property tax rules for inherited property. [Ballot]

Jan 21, 2026 - Effects on County Administrative Costs. County governments administer the property tax. The measure ’s changes could affect counties ’ costs to do so. The net effect on county administrative costs is unclear but likely would not exceed the low tens of millions of dollars annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-035

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal [Publication Details] Description: In this brief, we analyze the Governor's proposal to create a new credit against diesel excise tax liability to incentivize the use of sustainable aviation fuel in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5139

January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Impact on Local Property Tax Revenues [EconTax Blog]

Feb 10, 2025 - Property Tax Revenues Reduced. This reduction in assessed values will correspondingly reduce property tax payments by $100 million to $200 million in 2025-26. These property tax revenues would have gone to the County and City of Los Angeles and the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre, as well as a number of local school districts and special districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/819

Community Land Trust Property Tax Exemption

Dec 20, 2024 - These results are somewhat limited, as some counties responded in some years and not others and other counties did not respond at all. That being said, the data do not point to any clear trend, either in the number of community land trust properties or the number of such properties claiming a property tax exemption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4946

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - (For  example, with special education funding that is transferred to school districts and certain local property tax transferred to trial courts.) In addition, COEs conduct a wide range of activities with LCFF —their primary state funding source.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

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

Feb 28, 2025 - One notable outlier to this pattern is a report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, who cla im to find a small fiscal benefit associated with the film tax credit. The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation estimates, however, very likely are overstated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000