in addition to putting a cap on the tax rate, Prop 13 requires that any tax increase be approved by a 2/3 vote.
Any property tax increase, not any increase of any kind.
"On a per capita basis" takes care of that objection. In absolute terms CA isn't in the middle of the pack in property tax collections, its near, perhaps at the top.
Do you have a link?
I've already posted links showing CA as 8th highest (out of 50) by one source, 11th highest by another. I'll repost those and add other links showing it as even worse
States with the highest sales tax (when you include weighted averages for county and city rates) are: Tennessee (9.4%), Louisiana (8.7%), Washington (8.5%), New York (8.25%), Arkansas (8.2%), Alabama (8.15%), Oklahoma (8.1%), and California (8.0%).
retirementliving.com
or sort by tax revenue per capita at
en.wikipedia.org to see CA as #11 out of 50
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California was rated as having the 45th-worst tax climate among the 50 states in 2007, down from 42nd in 2005, according to the Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Index, released this week.
uslaw.com
Data from the Washington-based Tax Foundation rank California as having the nation's third-highest state-local tax burden in 1978, at 11.7 percent of personal income. The national average at the time was 10.3 percent.
Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes, and the state tax cuts quickly enacted by the Legislature to demonstrate that it had gotten the anti-tax message, dropped California to 22nd in 1979, at 9.8 percent of income.
Since then, taxation has increased to 10.5 percent, raising us to sixth highest in the nation in 2008. And the income, sales and vehicle tax boosts enacted by the Legislature in February would presumably have pushed the percentage even higher — except that the severe recession has also cut deeply into state and local government revenues.
mercurynews.com
Notice at that last link that the burden is not only fairly high compared to other states (6th out of 50), but is moving up (moved from 22nd in 1979 to 6th in 2008). |
