California Corporate Taxes Represent Around 0.1% of Business Expenses 

Business Expenses for California Corporate Tax Filers, 2017-2019 Average

Visualization with a grid of 1,000 circles, where only one circle is a different color, representing California corporate taxes. All of the other circles are the same color, and represent other corporate expenses.
Note: California corporate taxes represented just 0.11% of business expenses for corporations filing taxes in California on average from 2017 to 2019, whether including all corporations or only C corporations. Business expenses are defined for this analysis as total deductions reported by corporations on California tax returns.
Source: Budget Center analysis of Franchise Tax Board dataEmbedDownload image