Property Taxes and Proposition 13

• The Evolution of Proposition 13 (June '08)
• Polls Find Proposition 13 as Popular as Ever; Experts Discuss Effects of Landmark Tax Reform Measure (June '08)
• What's Wrong with the State Supreme Court? (Spring '03)
  By Cris K. O'Neall
• Property Taxes and Intangibles: Where We Are Now. (January '03)
  By Cris K. O'Neall
• Satellites, Government Tax Lawyers and Moving Vans (September '01)
  By Greg Turner
• Assessor Explains Bid to Tax Satellites (September '01)
  By Rick Auerbach
• Trial De Novo: The Case for Legislative Authority to Act (September '01)
  By Eric J. Miethke and Richard D. Martland of the law firm of Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller and Naylor
• For the Record: BOE Acts on Power Plant Assessments (September '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 (March '01)
  By Theodore F. Bayer
• Old Technology Threatens Fairness and Accuracy of California's $2.1 Trillion Property Tax System (March '01)
  By Larry Herrera
• Courts, BOE Side with Taxpayers in 3 Cases (February '01)
• BOE Chair-elect Claude Parrish Q&A (December '00)
• Alert: Split Roll Threatens Economy (November '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
• Senator Peace: Cure Prop. 13 'Sickness' by Reassessing Commercial Property, Boosting the Homeowners' Exemption and Cutting the Sales Tax (February '00)
  A Cal-Tax Q & A
• Property Tax Fairness Among Local Governments Means Consolidating Local Governance (November '99)
  By Michael J. Coleman
• At Tax Time, $600 Equals $10,000 (October '99)
  By Gordon Dillow
• State Assessment After Deregulation (April '99)
  By Greg Turner
• Assessor Handbooks: What and Why? (March '99)
• 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 (April '98)
  By Eric Miethke
• A. Alan Post: The 'Real Tragedy' of the Property Tax Revolt (March '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 (March '96)
• Bringing Balance to Property Tax Administration (March '96)
  By Carol Ross Evans
• Special Report: SB 657 (October '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 (November '93)
  Why Prop. 13's acquisition-value assessment system is good for California.

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