The 2025-26 Budget: Partial Income Tax Exclusion for Military Retirement Income [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - Tax Expenditures Should Clear High Bar. Relative to spending proposals, tax expenditures tend to be reviewed less rigorously once they are adopted. Furthermore, again relative to spending proposals, assessing the effectiveness of tax expenditures is challenging given the limited information the state receives about taxpayers who benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/820

The 2025-26 Budget: Partial Income Tax Exclusion for Military Retirement Income [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - Tax Expenditures Should Clear High Bar. Relative to spending proposals, tax expenditures tend to be reviewed less rigorously once they are adopted. Furthermore, again relative to spending proposals, assessing the effectiveness of tax expenditures is challenging given the limited information the state receives about taxpayers who benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/820

Evaluating Tax Policy Changes in the Governor's Budget [EconTax Blog]

Feb 22, 2024 - Doing so would result in a less equitable tax system and would not offer meaningful administrative efficiencies. We recommend rejecting the proposed change. Approve Elimination of Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuel Production.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/797

Evaluating Tax Policy Changes in the Governor's Budget [EconTax Blog]

Feb 22, 2024 - Doing so would result in a less equitable tax system and would not offer meaningful administrative efficiencies. We recommend rejecting the proposed change. Approve Elimination of Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuel Production.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/797

California State Tax Expenditures Total Around $55 Billion [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2015 - Defining Tax Expenditures What Are Tax Expenditures? The term "tax expenditures " refers to tax exclusions, exemptions, preferential tax rates, credits, and other tax provisions that reduce the amount of revenue collected from the basic tax structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/60

Evaluating Tax Expenditures [EconTax Blog]

Aug 29, 2019 - Evaluating Tax Expenditures [EconTax Blog] Seth Kerstein What Are Tax Expenditures? Tax Provisions Intended to Accomplish A Public Policy Goal. Tax expenditures are provisions of tax law that enable targeted groups to reduce their taxes relative to the “basic ” tax structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/396

^[PDF] Tax Expenditure Evaluation

Tax Expenditure Evaluation Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation Hon. Jacqui Irwin, Chair P R E S E N T E D T O : L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E Tax Expenditure Evaluation F E B R U A R Y 2 2 , 2 0 2 3 L E G I S L AT I V E A N A LY S T ’ S O F F I C E 1 Tax Expenditure
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2023/Tax-Expenditure-Evaluation-022223.pdf

^[PDF] Summary of 1979-80 "Tax

Summary of 1979-80 "Tax Expenditures" In the 197~ budget, the Department of Finance has identified state tax expenditures totaling $6.6 billion and local tax expenditures (under the sales and property taxes) of $2.7 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1979/01_transmittal_overview_1979.pdf

California's Tax Expenditure Programs Part 1 [Publication Details]

Feb 1, 1999 - California's Tax Expenditure Programs Part 1 [Publication Details] California's Tax Expenditure Programs Part 1 Format: PDF Description: This two-part report on tax expenditure programs (TEPs) is the. fourth in a series of such reports produced by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2753

LAO Economy and Taxes

Report California's Tax Expenditure Programs Part 2 Format: February 1, 1999 - This is Part Two of a two-part report on California's tax expenditure programs (TEPs). It is the fourth in a series of such reports pro­duced by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
https://lao.ca.gov/Policy-Areas?areaId=8&category=0&year=0&page=20