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2019 CalTaxletter No. 36

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released his office’s official title and summary for the latest split-roll initiative October 17, clearing the way for proponents to begin collecting signatures. Like the version that already qualified for the November 2020 ballot…

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 35

Only 47 percent of likely voters support the split-roll property tax measure qualified for the November 2020 ballot and 45 percent oppose the measure, according to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll released October 2.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 34

Proponents of the split-roll initiative amended the measure September 17 to make several changes while maintaining the main provisions that would require annual market-value reassessments of business and commercial property.

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2019 CalTaxletter No. 33

Today is the final day of the 2019 legislative session, and the Assembly and Senate are scheduled to convene shortly after the CalTaxletter is published. At the conclusion of the floor sessions, both houses …

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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. 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).