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california assembly - Taxes
Aca-11 (2021-2022)
An excise tax that would fund health care coverage, AB-1400 and cost control systems.
Summary
- The proposal would establish an excise tax, payroll tax, and state personal income tax to fund CalCare, universal single-payer health care coverage for California residents.
- This measure would tax four groups:
- Tax on business with at least $2 million in gross receipts. The tax is on gross receipts rather than profit, and even with a loss, businesses would be required to pay the tax.
- Companies with 50 or more employees would have higher payroll taxes.
- Payroll tax increase on employees making $49,900 or more.
- Income tax increase on incomes over $149,509.
Status
Position
- LASCC's Position: Oppose
- The estimated additional taxes were originally $163 billion and now some of the proposers themselves have acknowledged that the cost could be as high as $200 billion with other economic experts believing it could be as high as upwards of $400 billion. The measure would authorize the Legislature, upon an economic analysis determining insufficient amounts to fund these purposes, to increase any or all of these tax rates by a statute passed by a mere majority vote of both houses of the Legislature rather than 2/3 vote. Employers will have a difficult time raising wages for employees, especially since some employers could be taxed on 3 out of 4 of the groups.
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