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Taxes Stories Posted in October 2007
Senate okays property tax measure
Category: Taxes · State: Florida · Source: Orlando Sentinel
Succumbing to the clock and a tax-wearied electorate, the Florida Legislature appeared poised Monday to send voters a scaled-back property tax proposal that offers a couple hundred dollars to homeowners.
Seeking help for schools
Category: Education · State: California · Source: Santa Monica Daily Press
Voters to see parcel tax renewal on ballot
Simple majority backers trying to get out vote
Category: Education · State: Washington · Source: Tri-City Herald
Supporters of a ballot measure to amend the state's constitution and allow school levies to be approved by a simple majority vote are courting the most reluctant of eligible bachelors -- the apathetic voter.
Ballot measure worth mulling
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: SGV Tribune
WHEN is an emergency not an emergency? When it's a tax, we suppose.
New Children’s Hospital Tax Measure Added to Ballot
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Berkeley Daily Planet
After what Supervisor Keith Carson said was “reluctantly” carrying out their legally-mandated duty to place a $12 million Children’s Hospital special tax initiative on the February ballot, Alameda County supervisors voted to place a second compromise measure on the ballot as well.
Galt OKs study on sales tax increase for police funding
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Lodi News-Sentinel
Galt's police department could get a $400,000 per year funding boost if residents pass a potential ballot measure to increase the city's sales tax.
City council's decision on property tax due Nov. 5
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Sierra Madre Weekly
The City Council will decide Nov. 5 whether to place a ballot measure before voters in February to protract and continue the city's utility user tax on telephone service. The tax, which is threatened by possible court action and changes in federal law, brings in about $10 million a year to the general fund.
Senate needs "watchdog" Kean
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Asbury Park Press
Kean supports all nine planks in the state Republican Party's platform, including stricter ethics laws, tighter caps on spending and initiative and referendum for citizens.
Cigarette maker adds $304,000 to tax fight
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
Reynolds American, the makers of Camel cigarettes, has contributed another $304,000 to the record-setting campaign against Measure 50, which would raise Oregon's cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack.
Constitutional conundrums
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Oregon Daily Emerald
If passed, Measure 50 would be the nation's first tobacco tax included in a state constitution
Transportation ballot measure will be a difficult balancing act
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Survey results show that task force members will need very different pitches to sell the measure to different areas of the county. And how they will put together a single measure remains to be seen.
Which Prop One is which on your ballot?
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: King 5
If you live in certain areas of western Washington, you may have to vote more than once. That's because, in addition to the high-profile transportation measure under the name Prop One, some counties have their own measures, also called Prop One.
Key issues hinge on election results
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: North Jersey Media Group, Inc.
Tax rebates for homeowners who make more than $200,000, a new school-funding formula and the future of the state's lottery and toll roads are among the key state issues to be decided at the polls next month.
Proposition 1: Free-for-all over roads, transit
Category: Taxes · State: Oregon · Source: Seattle Times
Opponents of the multibillion-dollar roads and transit measure on next month's ballot were once so underfunded and disorganized that few people took them seriously. No longer.
Opinion: Mayor V's phone tax has phony ring to it
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: LA Daily News
Under Proposition 218, a unanimous City Council must approve the mayor's request to place an "emergency" ballot measure before the voters. Dennis Zine and Greig Smith were the holdouts until Tony V worked his magic behind closed doors
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