Property Tax

Letters: Fixing all California schools

2013-01-20 00:00:00

Re "Funding schools fairly," Editorial, Jan. 16 Gov. Jerry Brown should ask himself who will be left to buy copy paper and Kleenex when the middle and upper-middle classes finally abandon the public school system. In choosing to give more money to...

L.A. officials propose $3-billion bond measure for May ballot

2013-01-04 15:44:02

Proposed cap on federal tax deductions would hit California hard

2012-12-19 00:00:00

You may be unaware of the local ramifications of one of the proposals currently at play in the danse macabre that passes for fiscal negotiations in Washington. This is the plan to cap federal tax deductions at either a set figure or a percentage of...

Rethinking Prop. 13

2012-12-06 00:00:00

You knew this was coming. Now that Californians have approved Proposition 30 to temporarily raise sales and income taxes, and now that voters have elected a supermajority of Democrats in the Assembly and the state Senate, a lawmaker has introduced a...

Limiting real estate deductions could affect home values

2012-12-02 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — What would happen to home values in the event that popular real estate deductions for mortgage interest and local property taxes were cut significantly? It's an issue you're likely to hear more about as Congress and the Obama...

Assessor John Noguez arrested in corruption probe

2012-10-17 08:52:18

Top aide, campaign donor also arrested in assessor corruption probe

2012-10-17 09:42:49

Assessor John Noguez, associates face at least 32 criminal charges

2012-10-17 10:33:08

Cities lose in court battle over redevelopment funds

2012-05-30 21:35:50

Corruption probe of L.A. assessor examines more than 100 properties

2012-05-07 21:35:47

Newton: Why should Prop. 13 be sacrosanct?

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a lawsuit working its way through the state courts that poses a novel and fundamental challenge to Proposition 13, the tax initiative approved by California voters in 1978. According to the lawsuit, brought by former UCLA...

Prop. 13: Sacrosanct because voters want it that way [Blowback]

2012-01-17 21:35:53

QUESTION: Constitutional Amendment #4 that will appear on the November general election ballot is titled Property Tax Exemption of Perpetually Conserved Land; Classification and Assessment of Land Used for Conservation.

2008-10-08 00:00:00

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