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What's Wrong with the
State Supreme Court? (Spring '03)
By Cris K. O'Neall -
Property Taxes and
Intangibles: Where We Are Now. (Jan. '03)
By Cris K. O'Neall - Satellites,
Government Tax Lawyers and Moving Vans (Sept. '01)
By Greg Turner - Assessor
Explains Bid to Tax Satellites (Sept. '01)
By Rick Auerbach - Trial
De Novo: The Case for Legislative Authority to Act (Sept. '01)
By Eric J. Miethke and Richard D. Martland of the law firm of Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller and Naylor - California’s Business Equipment Tax: A Beast of Burden for All (Sept. '01) By Loren Kaye
- For
the Record: BOE
Acts on Power Plant Assessments
(Sept. '01) - "Trial de Novo" Wins Assembly Approval
(June '01)
By the Cal-Tax Staff - Special District Fees and Similar Charges - The California Supreme Court
Resuscitates Stealth Property Taxes (Mar. '01)
By Theodore F. Bayer - Old Technology Threatens Fairness and Accuracy of California's $2.1 Trillion
Property Tax System (Mar. '01)
By Larry Herrera - Courts, BOE Side with Taxpayers in 3 Cases (Feb. '01)
- BOE Chair-elect Claude Parrish Q&A (Dec.'00)
- Alert: Split Roll Threatens Economy
(Nov. '00)
By Larry McCarthy - Allocating the Property Tax
(July '00)
By the Legislative Analyst's Office - Is It A Structure or Fixture?
(July '00)
By Rick Auerbach - Business Property Values: A Look at the Data
(May '00)
By Stephen Kroes - Senator Peace: Cure Prop. 13 'Sickness' by Reassessing
Commercial Property, Boosting the Homeowners' Exemption and Cutting
the Sales Tax (Feb. '00)
A Cal-Tax Q & A - 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 - State Assessment After Deregulation (Apr. '99)
By Greg Turner - Assessor Handbooks: What and Why? (Mar. '99)
Assessors Protest BOE Handbook Revisions (Mar. '99)
By Bruce Dear
Assessor Handbooks Provide Fair Ground Rules (Mar. '99)
By William Harris - Proposition 13 Did Not Strangle Local Budgets (June '98)
By Steven B. Frates - Proposition 13: Its Benefits are Real (May '98)
By the Cal-Tax staff - Proposition 13 Survives Test of Time (May '98)
By Larry McCarthy - Why Taxpayers Hate the Property Tax System (Apr. '98)
By Eric Miethke - A. Alan Post: The 'Real Tragedy' of the Property
Tax Revolt
(Mar. '98)
By Bob Schmidt, with sidebar: Post - Remarkable Retiree - Why the Business Coalition Opposed AB 1027 (July '97)
- AB 1027, Trial de Novo and California's
Image (May '97)
By Carol Ross Evans - Trial de Novo: Fairness for California Property
Taxpayers
(May '97)
By Eric Miethke - Trial
De Novo -- a Matter of Fairness ((May '96)
By Carol Ross Evans - SB 1903 (Maddy): Bringing Balance to Property Tax Administration (Mar. '96)
- Bringing
Balance to Property Tax Administration (Mar. '96)
By Carol Ross Evans - Special
Report: SB 657 (Oct.
'95)
Analysis of Cal-Tax's Omnibus Property Tax Reform bill passed in 1995. - Press Release: Fairness Is Goal of Major Property Tax Reform Bill (October 3, 1995)
- Classic
Cal-Tax: Proposition
13: Love it or Hate it, its Roots Go Deep (Nov. '93)
Why Prop. 13's acquisition-value assessment system is good for California.