California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - 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 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Subsidized employment programs appear more likely to result in long-term benefits when: (1)  employers have a business model that makes it realistic for them to hire participants full time after the program ends and (2)  the target population is women or long-term unemployed workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Feb 19, 2025 - The Governor ’s budget estimates such costs to be $1.2  million in 2024-25 and $978,000 in 2025-26. After the deduction of CDTFA costs, Chapter  231 requires monies be allocated pursuant to the priority order listed in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2018-19 Budget: California Earned Income Tax Credit Education and Outreach

May 8, 2018 - Claims Significantly Increased for 2017. Consistent with last year ’s expansion of the state EITC, about 1.3  million 2017 tax year filers have claimed the state EITC through April of this year. Of this total, we estimate that 330,000 filers would have been eligible for the state EITC absent the expansion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3826

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - For example, using the Governor ’s structure but setting the new PIT credit at 11  p ercent (as opposed to 13. 3  p ercent) of an individual ’s S corporation income could result in state revenue gains in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year while still increasing shareholders ’ after ‑tax income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

Evaluation of a Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Manufacturers

Dec 11, 2018 - The net benefit calculation estimates the exemption ’s effect on sales tax revenue as follows. It starts with the projected increase in output due to the exemption. It then multiplies this increase in output by: ( 1)  t he share of the applicant ’s products projected to be sold in California, and ( 2)  t he sales tax rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3907

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - The percentages presented in Figure  1 alone do not give a sense of how diverse the labor forces of version 3.0 productions are relative to both (1)  the overall motion picture workforce in California and (2)  California ’s population as a whole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

The 2024-25 Budget: Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Feb 20, 2024 - California Competes has been the state ’s primary tool in this area the last couple of years. Around one-third of California Competes grants across 2022-23 ($30  million) and 2023-24 ($51  million) went to semiconductor companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4846

The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program

Mar 27, 2017 - The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program SCAPAP = State ‑County Assessors ’ Partnership Agreement Program. Note: Part ‑time staff displayed as 0.5 full ‑time staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3632

The 2017-18 Budget: The Board of Equalization

Mar 7, 2017 - Administration ’s Proposal for CROS. The administration requests $30 million ($17.2 million General Fund, $3.2 million special funds, and $9.7 million reimbursements) in 2017-18—and varying amounts in 2018-19 and beyond—to implement the CROS project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3609