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The California excise tax on gasoline as of mid-2011 is 35.7 cents per gallon for motor fuel plus a 2.25% sales and use tax, 13 cents per gallon for diesel plus a 9.12% sales and use tax. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides an online list of sales taxes in the local communities of the state.
The main question behind this issue stems into three different approaches. First, federal spending should be neutral, meaning federal taxation should roughly equal expenditures. Second, it should be redistributive, meaning rich states should be taxed most heavily and poorer states should receive more benefits.
The California tax rate can be a bit more complex to figure out, but it would probably come in at a rate of 9.3% for $100,000 income (around $9,300). So, her $8,000 state tax bill adds up.
In 1929, the state legislature created the office of the Franchise Tax Commissioner to administer California's Bank and Corporation Franchise Tax Act. In 1950, California abolished the office of the Franchise Tax Commissioner and created the Franchise Tax Board as it exists today. The Executive Officers of the Franchise Tax Board have been:
In 2007, the San Diego Union-Tribune calculated the cost of the California sunshine tax at $1.1 billion just for the additional cost of gasoline in the state. [2] In Hawaii, the same concept is called a "paradise tax". It arises because incomes are lower and the cost of living is higher in Hawaii than on the mainland. [3]
California has the highest marginal income and capital gains tax rate and is in the top ten highest corporate tax and sales tax rates nationally. In 2016, California had the 17th-highest per-capita (per-person) property tax revenue in the country at $1,559, up from 31st in 1996.
The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.944 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2023. [8] It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank in terms of nominal GDP as the world's fifth largest economy, behind Japan and ahead of ...
Taxation in the United States. The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments ...