Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter

Friday, June 06, 2003

Proposition 13 25th Anniversary

Having lived through the fights surrounding the property tax revolution in the PRC, and its aftermath ever since it passed, this is an issue on which I try to stay as current as possible. The lessons we all learned from the Proposition 13 battles can be applied to all tax jurisdictions around the country, as we tried a few years ago here in Arkansas. As I said then, it was a true case of deja vu, with everyone predicting the end of the world if government were to ever be deprived of even one less penny in tax revenue. Those arguments were used in the campaign against Proposition 13 in 1978, and we all know that the PRC is still in existence.

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- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 6/06/2003 01:41:00 PM Send this post: