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A measure on the November ballot that would double the county's quarter-cent homeless sales tax is leading in an early poll of L.A. County voters but not with enough support yet to pass.
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce supported it. Having donated $900,000, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was the "largest single donor to the effort to raise the sales tax in the county and build more mass transit". According to LACMA surveys, the top three reasons people do not ...
Then-Gov. Jerry Brown Jr., left, and anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, after the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. Anti-tax forces haven't stopped trying to sabotage public services ever since.
Sales tax rates have also increased from 6% (pre-Proposition 13 level) to 7.25% and higher in some local jurisdictions. [58] In 1991, the Supreme Court of California ruled in Rider v. County of San Diego that a San Diego County sales tax to fund jail and courthouse construction was unconstitutional. The court ruled that because the tax money ...
At 7.25%, California has the highest minimum statewide sales tax rate in the United States, [8] which can total up to 10.75% with local sales taxes included. [9]Sales and use taxes in California (state and local) are collected by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, whereas income and franchise taxes are collected by the Franchise Tax Board.
(The Center Square) - The City of Los Angeles’s “mansion tax” on all property over $5.15 million has led to an over 70% decrease in affected sales, resulting in significant foregone property ...
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides sales tax rates for local governments on its website. [119] The sales tax rate data are particularly useful to voters in local sales tax elections. The California Department of Education provides detailed California K-12 public education data on the Ed-Data website. [120]
A decade ago, L.A. County overwhelmingly approved Prop. 47, which turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors. This November, the county overhauled it and supported Nathan Hochman for ...