The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation (HJTF) is the research, education and legal arm of the Jarvis organization. The Foundation funds studies on tax and economic issues and works to provide constructive alternatives to the tax-and-spend proposals from our state legislators. HJTF is the lead organization defending taxpayers in the courts.

Information gathered by the Foundation is available to the Association and other groups to assist in developing taxpayer protecting legislation and in preparing initiative measures.

Studies sponsored by HJTF include: An analysis of Government Revenues in California Since the Enactment of Proposition 13 by the Center for Government Analysis; An Analysis of Government Payroll and Employment for Counties in California by the Center for Government Analysis; California Competitive Cities: a Report Card on Efficiency in Service Delivery in California's Largest Cities by the Reason Public Policy Institute; An Analysis of Los Angles County Government by the Rose Institute of Claremont McKenna College; Proposition 13 and California Tax and Expenditure Trends by Gary M. Galles, Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University; Reversing California's Decline, a study of the state budget by Alvin Rabushka, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; several Reason Public Policy Institute studies on privatization of government services; and four academic studies to provide alternatives to protect taxpayers when Proposition 13 was threatened by lawsuits in the early 1990s.

HJTF sponsored "The Great Flat Tax Forum" held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

HJTF also advances the interests of taxpayers in the courtroom. Given the high cost of litigation, an ordinary taxpayer is rarely in a position to challenge the validity of an illegal tax levy. In appropriate cases, HJTF provides legal representation without cost to other taxpayer advocacy organizations, homeowners and individual taxpayers where the precedence established confers a broad public benefit to other citizens.

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