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Local Taxes

• The Dangers of Runaway Rights-of-Way Taxation. (Oct. 01)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Tax Hike Fails to Bolster Services (Apr. '01)
  By Rowena Lugtu-Shaddox
• Business-Friendly Tax Reforms Can Help Keep L.A.'s Economy Humming (Mar. '01)
  By Michael Feuer
• A Sales-Tax Holiday for California? (Feb. 01)
  By Ron Roach
• BOE Chair-elect Claude Parrish Q&A (Dec.'00)
• Significant California Tax Developments in 2000 (Dec.'00)
  By David R. Doerr and Chris Micheli
• Cities Playing a Blight Game. (Oct. '00)
  By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee columnist. 
• Tax-Hike Efforts Proliferate Despite Bulging Local Coffers (Sept. '00)
  By David R. Doerr and Ron Roach
• BOE Adopts New Local Appeals Rules (July '00)
  By James S. Bone
• Fiscal Good Times, Taxes and a Split Roll? (May '00)
  Senator Steve Peace and Senator Jim Brulte 
  at the Cal-Tax Members Meeting
• Revising the Local Finance System: If Not Now, When? (May '00)
  By Fred Silva
• Shaping a Plan for State-Local Fiscal Reform (Mar. '00)
  By Chris McKenzie
• A "SMART" Proposal for the Future of California (Dec. '99)
  By Kathleen Connell
• How to Slip New Taxes Past Skeptical Voters (Dec. '99)
  By Barry Witt
• Los Angeles is Serious About Tax Reform (Nov. '99)
  By Mike Feuer
• Property Tax Fairness Among Local Governments Means Consolidating Local Governance (Nov. '99)
  By Michael J. Coleman
• At Tax Time, $600 Equals $10,000 (Oct. '99)
  By Gordon Dillow
• Local Government Dollar Demand Bogs Down
  State-Local Fiscal Reform (June '99)
  By David R. Doerr
• Higher Taxes Hide Behind 'Reform' Label (Mar. '99)
  By Joel Fox
• L.A. Considers Massive Overhaul of Complex Tax System (Feb. '99)
  By Richard J. Riordan
• Informing the Local Bonds Debate (Dec. '97)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Court Decision: Janean McBrearty v. City of Brawley
  California Appellate Court Decision
  Taxpayers have three years from Guardino decision to file lawsuits on existing illegal local taxes.
• In-lieu Franchise Fees: Illegal Under Proposition 218 (Sept. '97)
  By Jonathan M. Coupal
• Torrance's Measure A: A Bad Idea (July '97)
  By Stephen Kroes
• The New Tax Revolution ... Again (July '97)
  By Al Beltrami
• Study: The Los Angeles Business Tax Structure Lacks Equity and Competitiveness (Apr. '97)
  By Dave Naney
• The New Tax Revolution (Mar. 97)
  By Dan Wall
• The Genesis of Proposition 218: A History of Local Taxing Authority (Feb. '97)
  By David R. Doerr
• Proposition 218: The Drafters' Statement of Intent (Feb. '97)
  By Jonathan Coupal
• What's so Wrong About Voter Approval to Raise Taxes? (Oct. '96)
  By Larry McCarthy
• CCRC Recommendations Shortchange Taxpayers (Jul. '96)
  By Stephen Kroes
• Local Taxes Require Voter Approval (Apr. 1996)
  A Supreme Court decision from Santa Clara has revived Proposition 62. This brief provides some history of Proposition 62 and discusses policy issues surrounding reinstatement of this important voter right.
• Locals Scramble to Protect Illegal, Non-Voted Taxes (Apr. '96)
  By Stephen Kroes