The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - In 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23, the Legislature committed to future one ‑time and temporary spending in 2023 ‑24 and beyond. Most of this spending no longer appears to be affordable. While the May Revision makes several billion dollars in spending reductions, it maintains $11  billion in one ‑time and temporary spending in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The F-statistic for this pair of regressors in the response equation generally is between 33 and 35, depending on the specification. The full-time median estimates in Figure  6 are the exception: when we limit the sample to full-time workers only, the F-statistic is around 22 to 23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - Since the flavor ban, however, revenues have declined much faster, from $1.84  billion in 2021-22 to $1.6  billion in 2022-23, then to $1.35  billion in 2023-24 (not including the new tax on electronic cigarettes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - From recent one-time General Fund augmentations, CARB allocated $70  million in both 2021-22 and 2022-23 through HVIP specifically for transit agencies to procure ZEBS. Amounts available for transit agencies through HVIP depend on budget act appropriations and on funding plans developed by CARB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount represents a $105  million (24  percent) reduction from the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget proposes to extend the California Competes Tax Credit program in its current form for an additional five years through fiscal year 2032-33. Analysis Program Trends Award Characteristics Have Changed Over Time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - Due to this divergence from the schedule, tax filers pay significantly less than 70  percent of their estimated tax liability in the first half of the year and significantly more than 30  percent of their estimated tax liability in the second half of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget provides a total of $1.2  billion over two years ($600  million in 2022 ‑23 and $600  million in 2023 ‑24) for a new goods movement infrastructure program to be administered by CalSTA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

Feb 28, 2023 - ” IZA Journal of Labor economics 2 (2013): 1 ‑23. Hollenbeck, Kevin, and Wei ‑Jang Huang. “Net impact and benefit ‑cost estimates of the workforce development system in Washington State. ” (2017). Jackson, C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24 Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24 Background Bradley-Burns Tax Provides Funding for Cities and Counties. California ’s sales tax rates vary across cities and counties, ranging from 7.25  percent to 11.25  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074