Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog

More news from my home state of California, and the governors attempt to fix the budget. Now Governor Brown is exploiting the protests in ...

Yesterday, the Governor of my home state launched a campaign asking voters to help reduce California's $25.4 billion budget deficit by...

On Thursday Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of fiscal emergency for the government of the most populous US state. He is pressing law...

Bad news for residents in my home state. Wasn’t the health reform supposed to help keep rates lower? If other health insurance companies w...

In another desperate attempt to reign in an out of control budget, my home state of California announced yesterday that the state governme...

California businesses already pay some of the highest unemployment taxes in the country – and the tab is likely to increase. The recessio...

Last week Lambda Legal published a helpful guide to help taxpayers and tax preparers in California with a recent IRS tax law change that a...

Although my home state of California is often scrutinized for it's heavy corporate tax rate, according to this article from LA Times.co...

My home state of California is on the verge of making history. Proposition 19, which currently has a narrow lead in the polls, would repea...

100 days after the constitutional deadline to pass a budget, the California Senate finally came to an agreement and sent a budget to Gover...

The California Supreme Court agreed to allow furloughs to resume on Friday, until they have enough time to thoroughly review the case. The...

Many California students returning to school this week are being squeezed into over-crowded classrooms. According to the Sacramento Bee ,...

Should You Invest or Pay Down Debt? How Students Pay for College (Mom and Dad) California's Revenues Down, State Spending Up In Jul...

Yesterday, legislators in my home state passed a resolution asking that same-sex spouses and domestic partners receive the same tax equali...

California taxpayers will be voting on a new anti-tax initiative in November that would make it illegal for lawmakers to approve taxes dis...

Estate Tax Act Includes $3.5m Exemption, 55% Top Rate & 10% Billionaire's Surtax FICA, Medicare, and Payroll Taxes Bank Tax: F...

Here in California the unemployment rate is falling, but not making much of a difference. It fell to 12.4 percent in California last month ...

Proposition 16 is in the news recently because many people are feeling very adamant about a NO vote on the initiative that seems to benefit ...

Did you ever think that there would come a day when we would pay for the plastic grocery bag that holds our groceries? Well, in California i...

Even though the state of California added 14,200 jobs in April, the unemployment rate didn’t budge much – It continues to be 12.6 percent. ...