Tax,
Government
Dec. 1, 2023
High court to hear arguments on tax control ballot measure
Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and former Democratic Party Chair John Burton petitioned the court in September to take the initiative off the ballot.
The state Supreme Court ordered California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and an attorney for a voter initiative that could limit future tax increases to show cause why it should not be removed from the November 2024 ballot.
The court’s Wednesday order said responses from Weber and Thomas W. Hiltachk, managing partner of Bell Andrews & Hiltachk LLP who represents a coalition of business groups that qualified the measure for the ballot...
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