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2021 CalTaxletter No. 4

Heeding the advice of the Legislative Analyst’s Office to take a deliberate pace when considering Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal for 2021-22, both houses of the Legislature canceled several scheduled budget committee hearings this week.

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2020 CalTaxletter No. 41

November revenue collections from the state’s three largest taxes – the personal income tax, corporation tax, and sales tax – were ahead of budget projections by $2.4 billion (33 percent), and total collections for the first five months of the 2020-21 fiscal year …

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2020 CalTaxletter No. 40

“A sizeable revenue windfall” of approximately $26 billion is taking shape for the state government because the pandemic-caused recession has had “a muted effect on tax collections …

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2020 CalTaxletter No. 39

California voters have rejected Proposition 15, the split-roll initiative that proposed the largest property tax increase in state history, with 51.9 percent of the voters in opposition.

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2020 CalTaxletter No. 38

California voters may have rejected Proposition 15, the split-roll initiative that proposed the largest property tax increase in state history…