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Tax,
Government,
Administrative/Regulatory

Jan. 11, 2018

Foolish to remove commercial properties from Prop 13

If any state could use inspiration from the recent federal tax cuts, it's California, which has one of the country's heaviest overall tax burdens. But there's no pressure building to cut state and local taxes, or to reform California's broken income tax system. Instead, the noisiest tax proposal in the state would hike taxes by about $11 billion a year.

Kerry Jackson

Fellow
Pacific Research Institute

Kerry is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the PRI.

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If any state could use inspiration from the recent federal tax cuts, it's California, which has one of the country's heaviest overall tax burdens. But there's no pressure building to cut state and local taxes, or to reform California's broken income tax system. Instead, the noisiest tax proposal in the state would hike taxes by about $11 billion a year.

A coalition of organizations submitted a ballot measure last month to remove comm...

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