SeeSALT Blog…process. This is in response to court rulings that allowed citizen-initiated special taxes to pass with a simple majority following California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland. Restoring the traditional…
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Should San Francisco Taxpayers File Protective Claims for Recovery of the Homelessness Tax and the Commercial Rents Tax?
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…Coalition v. City of Upland (2017) 3 Cal.5th 924, which held that the constitutional limits on “taxes imposed by local government” apply only to taxes brought to the voters by…
California Supermajority Tax Challenge Cases are Onto the Next Level: Last Trial Court Ruling Issued
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…in Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland (“Upland”). See our previous postings discussing the Upland decision and its unintentional but widespread ongoing repercussions. In Upland, the California Supreme Court held local measures introduced…
California Prop C Taxpayers Should File Protective Refund Claims
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(This article originally was published by Law360 on August 21, 2019.) The repercussions of the California Supreme Court’s August 2017 opinion in California Cannabis Coalition, et al. v. City of Upland, et…
The 5 Supermajority Tax Challenges Facing California
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…are the first decisions in a wave of closely watched litigation challenges in California following the California Supreme Court’s August 2017 opinion in Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland.1 The…
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…“The Upland Ripple Effect: A California Supermajority Tax Showdown”…
The Upland Ripple Effect: A California Supermajority Tax Showdown
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Despite the narrow issue it originally addressed, the August 2017 decision by the California Supreme Court in California Cannabis Coal. v. City of Upland has sparked a much larger…
Blazing a Trail for More Local Taxes by Ballot Initiative
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(This article originally was published by Law360 on September 7, 2017.) On Aug. 28, 2017, in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland, the…