FIGHT BACK AGAINST HIGHER TAXES. TELL THE POLITICIANS YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING ENOUGH! California already ranks 6th in the nation in tax burden. One in ten Californians is unemployed and home foreclosures are at record levels. E-mail or call your Assembly and State Senate representatives and tell them not to punish California families with higher taxes to cover their lavish spending. Tell them, "No new taxes! We already pay enough."

Use the following link to find your representatives: click here.  Read more >>

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), more than 40 state legislators opposed to higher taxes, and John Eastman, dean of Chapman University, have filed suit to block the implementation of new taxes approved by the Legislature without the constitutionally required two-thirds vote.  Read more >>

The Western Conservative Political Action Conference (WCPAC) has announced that Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) will co-host this year's conference, October 10th and 11th at the Radisson Hotel in Newport Beach, California.

The theme of the conference will be Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Proposition 13.  Read more >>

SACRAMENTO -- Today the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has asked the courts to order the Attorney General to prepare a new title and summary for Proposition 1A, the High Speed Rail initiative, or to strike false and misleading statements from the existing Title and Summary written by the Legislature.  Read more >>

From the Los Angeles Times of July 9, 2008:

Property tax funds rise as housing market falls

Proposition 13 is credited with stabilizing California counties' tax bases even though valuations are lowered on thousands of homes.

By Cara Mia DiMassa
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

For decades, Proposition 13 has been cast as the bane of cash-strapped local government, limiting property tax revenues even as California's housing market soared.  Read more >>