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Can a city threaten to remove police protection from you for voting to repeal a tax?

March 24, 2017 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Police protection and other city services in California are funded in part by property taxes. But in a state where public employee salaries and pensions are hard to keep up with, some cities can’t live within the means which property taxes provide them. So they look for creative ways to extract more taxes from their … ...

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New PLF lawsuit challenges illegal local tax

March 28, 2014 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

On Tuesday, Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit, on behalf of the Building Industry Association – Bay Area, to challenge the City of San Ramon’s new community facilities district tax.  The lawsuit argues that the tax, which will be paid by new City residents to pay for existing standard municipal services, violates several provisions o ...