Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Archives

New Prop 30 Poll Shows Strong Support In Favor Of Raising Taxes On the Wealthiest Californians

October 4, 2022 1:34 pm

A new poll released on Monday has shown that while Proposition 30 continues to enjoy a double digit advantage in terms of support percentage amongst voters, that support has dwindled from earlier polls, with total support coming under the 50%...

Clean Cars and Clean Air Act Receives Enough Signatures for November Ballot

June 29, 2022 12:34 pm

Supporters of the Clean Cars and Clean Air Act ballot initiative, which aims to drastically reduce air pollution in California by increasing funding for wildfire firefighters, electric cars, and electric car infrastructure, announced on Tuesday that they accumulated almost 1...

San Jose Annual ‘Gun Harm Reduction Fee’ is Just an Illegal Tax New Lawsuit Says

April 4, 2022 2:26 pmApril 4, 2022 2:36 pm

The City of San Jose is being sued by three civic groups over a $25 fee on gun ownership that it enacted earlier this year. The law requires that gun owners pay the annual “gun harm reduction fee” to an...

California’s Death Tax Unleashed a Callous Tax Increase on Californians Grieving the Death of a Loved One

January 24, 2022 2:13 amJanuary 23, 2022 9:16 pm

Californians face some of the highest taxes in the nation. We have the highest gas, personal income, and state sales tax in the country. Yet, for 35 years we haven’t had a death tax, until the narrow passage of Prop....

Court of Appeal Decides Key Budget Bills Case 3-0

November 3, 2021 2:15 amNovember 2, 2021 6:11 pm

After four years of waiting, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled 3-0 in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) v. Shirley Weber (Josh Newman, et al., Real Parties in Interest). HJTA had brought two petitions for writ of mandate in...

Appellate Court Rules in Favor of CalSavers Retirement Program

May 7, 2021 3:45 pmMay 10, 2021 8:32 am

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that CalSavers, an automatic retirement savings fund for those not offered a 401(k) or pension in California, would not be shut down. CalSavers was created by the state in 2017 as...

Government Unions, Tech Billionaires and California Ballot Propositions

December 16, 2020 2:12 amDecember 16, 2020 8:35 am

Californians voted on twelve state ballot propositions on November 3. On nine of these propositions, California’s government and private sector unions spent significant amounts of money, over a million in five cases, and over ten million in two cases. But of these...