Category: taxes
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Measure R And S Oversight Committees?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 6, 2022 In November of 2020, both the City and the County were granted by thevoters the right to collect an additional one percent sales tax to bedeposited in their general funds. For this generosity, the votersexpected certain services, and repairs to be made by both…
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PART 2: FEELING TAXED TO DEATH
Commentary By Donna Westfall – January 8, 2022 PETITION APPROVED: City attorney, Martha Rice, approved the petition for signature on Tuesday, January 4th. Only 49 signatures are required to get the repeal of the 1% City sales tax on the June 2022 ballot. However that means we have to collect at least 20% more because…
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HJTA FIGHTS TO REPEAL CA’S NEW DEATH TAX – LOCAL TAX ASSOCIATION ALSO FIGHTING TO REPEAL SALES TAXES
By Donna Westfall – December 30, 2021 From Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Associations Newsletter: “With more and more families receiving notices that the death of a parent has triggered reassessment of family properties and sharply higher tax bills, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has filed a ballot initiative with the attorney general’s office to repeal the death…
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FEELING TAXED TO DEATH?
By Donna Westfall – December 19, 2021 Last year when both the City and the County put a 1% sales tax on the ballot, many of us thought they were nuts. Could the timing be any worse? Worse or not, there is possible recourse at the June ballot in 2022 IF enough signatures are collected…
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HOMESTEAD FILING SAVE MONEY ON PROPERTY TAXES NOW
By Linda Sutter – December 17, 2021 Our local officials thought it was great fun to use our taxpayer funds to place a one cent sales tax on the ballot last year, increase Fire District tax on a few to pay for all, and now want to increase our water and sewer rate in the…
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Just Exactly Who Is A Benefit To The People?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – December 17, 2021 Most of you that read the Crescent City Times may have noticed a lack of writingfrom yours truly in the pages of the Times. As to that, I have beentraveling for most of the past month through Oregon, Western Washington,with some brief visits to Northern California,…
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BATTLE TO HALT PROP. 19 TAX HIKE
Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association – December 7, 2021 The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is fighting to reverse one of the largest property tax increases in state history, a little-noticed provision of Proposition 19 that revoked the ability of parents to pass property to their children without any change to the property tax bill. Proposition 19…
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Some Really Good News
By Donna Westfall – December 5, 2021 Kate Brown, current governor of Oregon cannot run for re-election because she has termed out. If that’s not cause for celebration, I don’t know what is. Come November 8, 2022, there will be a new Oregon governor elected. In the running so far are eight Democrats and eleven…
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BORN FREE BUT TAXED TO DEATH
By Donna Westfall – November 14, 2021 Last year the people of this city and country voted to approved increasing the sales tax by 1%, and increasing the fire district assessment tax by $74/year. Voters in California approved Prop 19 which did away with the Death tax. And parents/grandparents and taxpayers, dismayed with the state…