The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has released its 2019 Legislative Report Card grading lawmakers on legislative bills important to taxpayers. The Report Card is a non-partisan tool to help taxpayers hold legislators accountable by tracking their individual votes. To review the Report Card in its entirety and to see how individual representatives scored, please click […]
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the most influential taxpayer advocacy group in California, today (15) launched a statewide radio ad campaign reminding Californians of the importance of Proposition 13 and the urgent need to fight new efforts to dismantle it. The script of the ad is as follows: Proposition 13 [is] the initiative that has […]
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association launched a statewide radio ad campaign today to raise awareness of the threat to California taxpayers from attacks on Proposition 13. Listen to the ad here:
Today (13) the United States Department of Justice filed a “Statement of Interest” in the U.S. District Court agreeing with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) in its legal action against California’s so-called “CalSavers” program. Originally called “Secure Choice,” CalSavers is a state-run retirement plan for private-sector employees. HJTA contends that it is an illegal […]
In a victory for taxpayers, the Fresno Superior Court decided in favor of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association today (9/5), ruling that special taxes proposed by a voter initiative are not exempt from the state constitution’s two-thirds vote requirement. At issue was Fresno’s Measure P, a sales tax initiative on the November 2018 ballot that proposed […]
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and retired state Senator and Judge Quentin L. Kopp prevailed Monday (26) in a lawsuit to invalidate Senate Bill 1107, a 2016 California law that would have allowed political campaigns to be financed with taxpayer dollars. “California voters passed Proposition 73 partly to prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used as […]
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has filed an appeal of a San Francisco Superior Court ruling that special tax-increase measures submitted to the voters last year needed only a simple majority to pass instead of a two-thirds vote. “This is a brand new loophole contravening the voters’ intent in Propositions 13 and 218 that all […]
Today (May 30, 2019) Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association called for an investigation of what appears to be multiple violations of campaign finance laws as well as gross misuse of taxpayer funds. The improper activity by the Los Angeles Unified School District is designed to tap into public resources to push its highly controversial parcel tax […]
Today (7) Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District contesting the legality of Measure EE, a parcel tax proposal which would cost property owners within the district hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Measure EE is currently slated for the June 4th ballot. The LAUSD Board approved […]
As tax season comes to a close and Californians wrap up their tax returns today, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has released this year’s Follow the Money report, chronicling cases of bureaucratic waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. The cases illustrated in the report exemplify the need for vigilance in any matter concerning the government’s […]
