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Re: Prop S
said by Maleficent  :Don't know much about it. I found this on lavote.net. Looks like they want to reduce the tax down to 9% from 10%. Actually what happened was that the old phone tax was 10%, the one that paid for the mexican american war.
Well, that got repealed recently, and the city of Los Angeles had been bandwagoning that tax for their coffers for years. The LA city council met in a closed door session to try to get the phone companies to keep charging this tax for residents, and the phone companies told them to take a walk.
So this is a brand new phone tax of 9%, made to look like they are reducing the existing tax, which is completely misleading.
"Los Angeles voters will be asked in a special election Feb. 5., the day of California's presidential primary, to approve a 9% telephone utility users tax to replace a decades-old levy that, because of changes in Washington, became vulnerable to legal challenges.
The City Council tried to reauthorize the 10% levy last year, but a taxpayer swiftly filed a challenge, citing Proposition 218, the 1996 ballot initiative that requires a public vote on most new taxes.
Villaraigosa persuaded council members to seek a 9% tax so he would bill it as a tax cut".
»www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me···set=true |
