This Veterans Day, California military retirees will be able to celebrate the day knowing they can claim a state tax exemption for their service because of a years-long effort by Assemblymember James C. Ramos and negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his staff. California was the only state without a partial or total exemption on military retiree exemptions.

Department of Defense Data reports California is home to 1.4 million veterans, and as of 2021, we had a population of 132,344 military retirees in our state and 27,600 survivors. A 2023 Assembly analysis of a previous Ramos effort in 2023, AB 46, noted, “Between 2010 and 2020 the nation’s population of military retirees has increased by 4%. California, during this period, was one of the few states that saw a reduction in the number

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