According to the Census Bureau’s 2013 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections, California’s 2013 tax revenues rose 15.6 percent over last year, outstripping the 6.1 percent average increase for all states. California’s individual income tax revenues rose 21.4 percent and sales tax revenues rose 8.5 percent. Some of the increase is attributed to Proposition 30, which raised personal income taxes on high-wage earners as well as increasing the statewide sales tax. According to the Sacramento Bee, the total increase in state tax revenues was $18.2 billion.
