ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California is considering raising taxes on some of the country's largest companies, but the size of the tax increase would depend on how much its highest-paid executive make compared to its employees.
The bigger the gap, the bigger the tax increase.
The bill by Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner passed out of its first committee hearing on Wednesday, keeping it alive a head of a Jan. 31 deadline to pass the Senate.
The proposal would only apply to companies that post at least $10 million of taxable income from business conducted in California. That would apply to about 2,000 companies nationwide, including the Walt Disney Co., headquartered in Burbank.
Heiress Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy Disney — the brother of Walt Disney a
