Category: taxes

By Californians for Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability – March 8, 2024 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Last week, the Orange County Register and affiliated Southern California News Group media outlets published an opinion article highlighting just how out-of-touch the League of California Cities (The League) is with the issues most important to California voters. Authored by Jon Coupal,…

Press Release from Californians for Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability – April 1, 2024 Voters are promised their taxes will fund critically important services, only to see the ugly truth later SACRAMENTO, CA- This April Fool’s Day, Californians are in for an unpleasant reminder of the deceptive bait-and-switch tactics used to pass tax increases to…

By Dylan J. Martin – March 23, 202 Surprisingly strong showings by Republican candidates in California’s March 2024 Primary Election offer hope to end the Democrats Super-Majority in the state legislature. Here are the seats Carl DeMaio and Reform California say should be prioritized in the 2024 General Election to achieve that. In a surprising…

March 19, 2024 Every vote counts, especially in a close election like the one for Proposition 1. Two weeks after the March 5 primary it is still too close to call. Right now it leads by only 19,617 votes out of more than 7 million cast. (See below for why HJTA recommended a vote of…

By Jon Coupal – March 8, 2024 The tax-and-spend lobby loves to blame Proposition 13 for all of California’s woes. This has become so routine that we at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association have compiled a “Top 10” list of things for which Proposition 13 is alleged to be responsible. Keep in mind that these…

By Jon Coupal – March 3, 2024 The reaction from politicians to California’s budget deficit – now estimated by the Legislative Analyst to be around $73 billion – breaks down into two camps: the state must either reduce spending or find more revenue. (Euphemism for raising taxes.) In reality, even the most progressive legislators realize…

By Jon Coupal – February 19, 2024 Last week, the organizations sponsoring the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (TPA) filed their response to the governor and Legislature’s lawsuit, which seeks to remove the overwhelmingly popular measure from the November general election ballot.  The Taxpayer Protection Act will close court-created loopholes in Prop. 13 as…

By Jon Coupal – February 20, 2024 The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association announced today that nearly 560,000 signatures were collected on petitions to Repeal the Death Tax, less than the 874,641 signatures needed to qualify the initiative for the November ballot. The results of the all-volunteer, grassroots campaign exceeded HJTA’s previous effort to restore the…

February 14, 2024 A coalition of 18 taxpayer groups from across the state filed an amicus brief in the California Supreme Court, urging the Court to allow voters to vote on the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (TPA), a ballot initiative that would require voter approval for any new state or local tax increases…