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Tax

Oct. 16, 2013

Gov. Brown signed a retroactive tax...cut?

On Oct. 4 Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1412, a bill that reinstates a controversial California tax break.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

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By Robert W. Wood


A tax cut in California? A tax cut that is retroactive? A tax cut favoring businesses and investors? No, it is not April Fools' Day, and this is not a joke. This is a rare piece of good California tax news.


It comes on the heels of many years of not so attractive developments. It was just last year that California enacted sweeping retroactive tax hikes. They sent tax rates for $1 million earners to a stratospheric 13.3 percent, up ...

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