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It was proposed by the California State Legislature and approved by voters in a referendum held on 7 November 1978. The amendment was necessitated by the passage of Proposition 13 in June of the same year. Proposition 8 allowed for a reassessment of real property values in a declining market.
Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process, to cap property taxes and limit property reassessments to when the property changes ownership, and to require a 2/3 majority for tax increases in the ...
31 – Passed – Property Taxation. Fire Protection System Exclusion of 1984. 32 – Passed – Supreme Court. Transfer of Causes and Review of Decisions of 1984. 33 – Passed – Property Tax Postponement. Disabled Person. 34 – Failed – Property Taxation. Historic Structure Exemption. 35 – Removed from ballot by Uhler v. AFL-CIO.
Various economic factors have led to taxpayer initiatives in various states to limit property tax. California Proposition 13 (1978) amended the California Constitution to limit aggregate property taxes to 1% of the "full cash value of such property." It also limited the increase in assessed value of real property to an inflation factor that was ...
7 – Passed – Taxation of Restricted Historic Property. 8 – Passed – Deposit of Public Money In Savings and Loan Associations. 9 – Passed – Bingo. 10 – Failed – Bonds To Refund State Indebtedness. 11 – Passed – Motor Vehicle Taxes--Local Surplus Property. 12 – Failed – Interest Rate. 13 – Passed – Property Tax ...
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Bias vs. Bias: Judge Walker Is Gay -- and Conservative In the wake of federal Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that California's Proposition 8 gay ...
In a thorough and devastatingly clear opinion, Judge Vaughn Walker dismantles the "case" made by proponents of California's Proposition 8. After summarizing the testimony witness by witness, Judge ...
Parcel taxes originated in response to California's Proposition 13 (1978), a state initiative constitutional amendment approved by California voters in June 1978. Proposition 13 limited the property tax rate based on the assessed value of real estate to 1% per year. However, a parcel tax circumvents the property tax rate limits of Proposition ...