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2019 CalTaxletter No. 12

Legislation asking the state to study the viability of implementing a carbon tax to replace the state’s sales and use tax passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on March 20. The bill (SB 43 by Senator Ben Allen, who chairs the committee) was approved on a party-line 4-2 vote, with Democrats in support, and now goes to the Senate Governance …

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 11

With a 69-0 vote on March 14, the Assembly approved legislation making changes to the California Department and Fee Administration’s implementation of South Dakota v. Wayfair, the U.S. Supreme Court decision relating to sales and use tax on transactions involving out-of-state sellers…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 10

The Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report March 5 outlining the federal tax changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, discussing how California could conform to those changes, and offering recommendations for and against conforming to 10 specific provisions…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 8

Approaching today’s deadline for state lawmakers to introduce bills for consideration this year, legislators introduced hundreds of measures each day this week – including a placeholder for a sales tax on services that was one of the 526 bills…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 7

In his first State of the State Address, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered new transparency measures for California’s high-speed rail project, saying the current plan “would cost too much and take too long,” and indicated that tax reform is on his agenda…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 6

The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) this week endorsed the split-roll property tax initiative that will appear on the November 2020 ballot, becoming the first major public employees’ unions to endorse the measure.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 5

The middle class is at a crossroads in California, and if current trends continue, many Californians might decide to take a road that leads to another state.
It’s no secret that here on the West Coast, everything is…