One of the plan’s key architects, State Controller Betty T. Yee cheered the legislative approval of the Taxpayer Transparency and Fairness Act of 2017 (AB 102) to comprehensively reform the State Board of Equalization (BOE). The bill now goes to Governor Brown for his signature as part of the 2017-18 budget trailer bill package. “Without equivocation, the need to fundamentally overhaul the Board of Equalization is dire,” said Controller Yee, the state’s chief fiscal officer and ex-officio member of BOE. “The sweeping reform passed takes the duties of BOE down to the studs and structurally remodels to ensure more consistent, fair, transparent, and efficient administration of California’s tax laws and appeals.”