Revenue Center
A key component of a Family Recovery Budget for California is the inclusion of revenues that will protect against devastating cuts to the state’s vital health and human services safety net. See below for information on a variety of initiatives being proposed by the state legislature for this budget year.
Information on Corporate Tax Loopholes and other Revenue Solutions in California
- Oil Severance Fact Sheet (PDF) (Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee) (New)
- California’s Cavernous Corporate Loopholes: LA Times Op/Ed (HTML) (California Tax Reform Association, May 2010) (New)
- Corporate Loophole Repeal Initiative (HTML) (California Tax Reform Association, May 2010) (New)
- Revenues and the 2010-11 Budget (PDF) (Legislative Analyst Office, May 2010) (New)
- Smart Revenue Solutions to Save Our State – Hand Out (PDF) (California Partnership, May 2010) (New)
- Family Recovery Budget (Including Revenue Specifics) (doc) (HHS Network, April 2010)
- Family Recovery OR Corporate Bailouts Flyer (doc) (HHS Network, April 2010)
- Family Recovery OR Corporate Bailouts Flyer (PDF) (HHS Network, April 2010)
- Who Pays Taxes in California? (California Budget Project, April 2010)
- Resolution Urging the State Legislature to Make the 2010-11 Budget a Family Recovery Plan for California (County of Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, March, 2010)
- Fact Sheet on Tax Breaks (California Labor Federation, 2010)
- Middle Class Bill of Rights (California Labor Federation, 2010)
- Sharing the Burden: 10 Tax Policies for $20 Billion (California Tax Reform Association, Feb. 2010)
- Progressive Taxes: The Cure for California’s Budget Problems (California Federation of Teachers)
- To Have and Have Not (California Budget Project, June 2009)
2010 Revenue Legislation*
| Legislation | What it means |
|---|---|
| SB 1272 (Wolk) | Requires every new tax expenditure to state public policy goals and sunset after 5 years. |
| SB 1391 (Yee) | Creates a taxpayer money-back guarantee on tax expenditures that allows the state to recapture a tax credit if a company leaves the state or decreases employment in California within 5 years. |
| AB 1604 (Nava) | Would impose a 10% oil severance tax that would be deposited all into the General Fund. |
| AB 1836 (Furutani) | Would reinstate the 10% / 11% upper-income tax brackets for just 5 years. |
| AB 1935 (de León) | Would save the state over $600 million annually through repeal of the special option for corporations to choose the formula each year by which they are taxed. |
| AB 1936 (de León) | Would repeal loss carry-back, which allow corporations to get refunds for taxes they paid two years earlier if they take losses, thereby making it impossible to count on revenue even when taxes are paid. |
| AB 2038 (Eng) | Would suspend or revoke professional business licenses, permits, or certificates of a tax delinquent. |
| AB 2171 (Calderon) | Requires tax expenditures to be financed through the budget process. |
| AB 2492 (Ammiano) | Would make sure that corporations and commercial properties are reassessed when changes of ownership occur, ending the use of complex transactions to avoid reassessment. |
| AB 2564 (Swanson) | Requires that all corporate tax breaks show up as a line item in the budget in order to compare them to direct spending. |
| AB 2666 (Skinner) | Creates a public database of the companies that receive corporate tax breaks and the number of jobs they create. |
*Compiled by the Western Center on Law & Poverty and California Tax Reform Association
Information and Resources on Specific Revenue Bills:
AB1935 (de León)
AB1604 (Nava)
- Background Fact Sheet
- Change of Ownership Fact Sheet
- Questions and Answers
- Organization Letter of Support
- Sign on Form
Initiatives on November Ballot
- California State Parks Initiative Website
- Parks Initiative Fact Sheet (Californians for State Parks and Wildlife Conservation, 2010)
