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2019 CalTaxletter No. 31

CalTax President Rob Gutierrez joined leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the California Business Roundtable and other members of the Fight For Prop 13 Coalition at an August 29…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 30

The Assembly on August 19 rejected a proposed constitutional amendment (ACA 1, Aguiar-Curry) that would make it easier to pass local taxes by lowering the vote threshold from two-thirds to 55 percent for taxes that fund infrastructure and housing.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 29

The proponents of the split-roll initiative that qualified for the November 2020 ballot filed a new version (Initiative 19-0008) August 13 in an attempt to fix drafting errors and make the measure more appealing to voters – in part …

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 28

The Legislature will reconvene Monday after its one-month summer recess, and several tax threats remain active as lawmakers enter the home stretch of the first year of the 2019-20 legislative session.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 27

A coalition was launched July 15 under the name Fight for Prop 13 to educate Californians about the importance of protecting the tax reforms approved overwhelmingly by California voters in 1978.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 26

On July 1, the first day of the state’s new fiscal year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the budget “trailer bill” enacting his tax conformity package (AB 91, Burke).

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 25

Governor Gavin Newsom signed the state budget bill (AB 74, Ting) on June 27, putting in place a $214.8 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 24

Both houses of the Legislature this week approved Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to selectively conform to federal laws, most of which are changes contained in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, sending the legislation (AB 91, Burke) to the governor…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 23

Both houses of the Legislature approved the 2019-20 state budget bill (AB 74, Ting) on June 13 – two days before the constitutional deadline – and indicated that action on budget “trailer bills” relating to tax conformity will occur next week.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 22

The California budget process continued this week as the joint Budget Conference Committee met June 3 and June 4 to discuss differences between Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposals and those of the Assembly and Senate.

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