Comments on: Polls: Split-roll property tax initiative faces rough road https://calwatchdog.com/2015/06/07/polls-split-roll-property-tax-initiative-faces-rough-road/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: SeeSaw https://calwatchdog.com/2015/06/07/polls-split-roll-property-tax-initiative-faces-rough-road/#comment-116886 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:55:28 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=80670#comment-116886 Poll questions are always worded so that the real truth is skewed. Prop. 13 currently covers all property owners alike. Once a property changes hands it is reassessed for tax purposes at the current market value. Such rule works for residential owners, but many business owners, especially large corporations, have a loophole whereby they are able to bypass the upgrade in tax assessment by keeping the name of at least one former owner on the deed. The idea of a split-roll tax is not to treat the two owner-categories separately–it is to make both follow the original intent of Prop. 13.

]]> By: SkippingDog https://calwatchdog.com/2015/06/07/polls-split-roll-property-tax-initiative-faces-rough-road/#comment-116882 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:52:56 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=80670#comment-116882 In reply to Dude.

You must be new here.

]]> By: Dude https://calwatchdog.com/2015/06/07/polls-split-roll-property-tax-initiative-faces-rough-road/#comment-116880 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:33:08 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=80670#comment-116880 Call Watchdog is left leaning, so they try to word their story to make it look like American Californian residents would love to be burdened with more taxes. Take note that there was no third option where the poll respondents could vote to leave Prop 13 as is with no new taxes. We have the 3rd highest taxes in the country. So, my response to the author’s reference to “…paying our fair share” is, if they really wanted us to pay our FAIR share the would LOWER our current tax rates. The same message should be sent to Obama.

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