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The disparity grows when property prices appreciate by more than 2% a year. The Case–Shiller housing index shows prices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco appreciated 170% from 1987 (the start of available data) to 2012 while the 2% cap only allowed a 67% increase in taxes on homes that were not sold during this 26-year period. [33]
Rates were raised in 1864. This income tax was repealed in 1872. A new income tax statute was enacted as part of the 1894 Tariff Act. [20] [21] At that time, the United States Constitution specified that Congress could impose a "direct" tax only if the law apportioned that tax among the states according to each state's census population. [22]
The FTB collects personal state income taxes. The FTB collects income taxes from California residents on their income from all sources. [2] Meanwhile, non-residents are taxed on their California-based income. [2] In recent years, the FTB collects more than $50 billion each year in personal income taxes. [2] [3]
Property taxes remained a major source of government revenue below the state level. Hard times during the Great Depression led to high delinquency rates and reduced property tax revenues. [68] Also during the 1900s, many jurisdictions began exempting certain property from taxes. Many jurisdictions exempted homes of war veterans.
The California excise tax on gasoline as of mid-2011 is 35.7 cents per gallon for motor fuel plus a 2.25% sales and use tax, 13 cents per gallon for diesel plus a 9.12% sales and use tax. [37] The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration provides an online list of sales taxes in the local communities of the state. [9]
The collection of almost all state sales taxes and special fees, prior to the formation of the Administration, was handled by the California State Board of Equalization, a constitutional body composed of constitutional offices; despite almost a century of attempts to reform the Board, owing to various corruption-related concerns, these efforts were not successful for most of its history. [3]
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Reducing the mandatory minimum sentence's for most individuals convicted under the state's three-strikes law. Proposition 37 (2012) Defeated: Requiring labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in a specified way. Proposition 47 (2014) Passed