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Burden
Most of these articles are excerpted
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State Budget Rises, Falls with Taxes Paid by the
Rich (Jan. '02)
By Daniel Weintraub - California’s Business Equipment Tax: A Beast of Burden for All (Sept. '01) By Loren Kaye
- The Methods States Use To Determine Taxable Presence Are All Over the Map
(Nov. '00)
By George Donnelly - Californians Carry Heavy Tax Burden (Sept. '99)
By Stephen Kroes - Taxing California - 1995-96 State, Local, and
Federal Tax Burden: Rising Cost of Government (Sept. '99)
By Stephen Kroes
PDF format - Davis: NO on Higher Taxes, Period (May '99)
- Taxing California - Analysis of 1994-95 Federal,
State and Local Tax Burden
(Sept. '98)
By Stephen Kroes- Taxing California is also available in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Click here to get Acrobat)
- Fees are a Large Part of "Tax Burden" (June '98)
By Stephen Kroes - Is Your City a Big Spender? Kosmont Cost of Doing
Business Survey Points out Disparities in Revenue and Spending
Habits (Mar. '98)
By Larry J. Kosmont and Frank E. Taplin, with sidebar: L.A. Tax Equity Study -- What Next? - Taxing California - Analysis of 1993-94 Federal,
State and Local Tax Burden
(Sept. '97)
By Stephen Kroes - Study: The Los Angeles Business Tax Structure Lacks
Equity and Competitiveness
(Apr. '97)
By Dave Naney - Taxing California
(May '96)
This issue compares California taxes and fees to other states for 1992-93 (the most recent federal data). It also includes information on federal tax burden for the first time. - Comparing
Tax Burden (May '96)
By Stephen Kroes - How
(Not) to Measure Tax Burden
(Mar. '96)
A brief examination of flaws in the most popular measures of tax burden. - How
(Not) to Measure Tax Burden
(Mar. '96)
By Stephen Kroes - California
Taxing and Spending (Oct.
'94)
Cal-Tax's annual bulletin comparing tax burden and spending to other states. This is the report written in 1994, which uses 1992 data. - Revenue
Crisis? (Aug. '94)
While the spending lobby claims that California has not kept up with other states in government revenues and spending, a more detailed look at the data shows the opposite -- California dramatically outpaced other states in spending and revenues during the 1980s.