Don't let this be Proposition 13's last birthday
Prop. 13 was approved by voters 48 years ago today. We must save it. And here's how.
Today, June 6, is the 48th birthday of Proposition 13, and if you own a home, a condo or any other property in California, you know how important Prop. 13 has been to your financial security.
Proposition 13 placed a limit on how much your property taxes can go up for as long as you own your home. It cut the tax rate on property to 1%, when it had been as high as 3%. And it placed new requirements on state and local government to make it harder to raise other taxes.
But lately the courts in California have created massive loopholes in Proposition 13 that are wiping out these protections with rulings that are directly contrary to the plain language of the constitution.
That’s why we have filed the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13, a new initiative that, thanks to your help collecting 1.3 million signatures, will be on the November 2026 ballot! It will finally stop court-created loopholes from allowing unconstitutional tax increases to slip through, costing Californians billions of dollars every year.
The next step is the campaign to pass the initiative, and there’s no time to lose. If you can contribute, click or tap here to donate to the Protect Prop. 13 committee today.
The Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13 will restore the two-thirds vote requirement for ALL local special taxes and ban taxes on the sale of real estate. Those protections were in Prop. 13, but courts have carved loopholes, costing taxpayers billions of dollars they should not have had to pay.
Our initiative will once again make it HARDER to raise taxes.
It will also REPEAL taxes on the sale of real estate (called transfer taxes) that have been allowed by the courts, as well as parcel taxes that passed with less than the required two-thirds vote.
As difficult as it was to collect 1.3 million signatures, the really hard part starts now.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association will lead the campaign to pass the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13. We will need radio commercials, yard signs, mailers, billboards and every other kind of advertising within our means to reach every voter in California. We’re a grassroots organization, member-supported, that runs on small donations from taxpayers who know how important it is to limit the government’s ability to raise taxes. We have to get the word out, starting now.
If you can, please help!
Your donation of $10, $25 or whatever you can contribute, if it doesn’t pose a hardship, will be a tremendous help. It will allow us to start reserving advertising while prices are lower, so your donation has even more impact.
Click or tap here to donate today!
HJTA has already demonstrated that we can convince voters to defeat tax increases, even when we are outspent by special interests. Now we have to prove that we can persuade voters to pass the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13. Our message:
This will make it harder to raise taxes. Vote YES!
With your help we have come this far already, and with your help we will get across the finish line in November! Thank you!
With gratitude and appreciation,
Jon Coupal,
President, HJTA
P.S. Your donation at this time goes even further, because we can reserve advertising before prices go up, as they will, when we get closer to the election. Click or tap here to donate to the Protect Prop. 13 committee today. Thank you!
Contributions to PP13 are not tax deductible.
Paid for by Protect Prop. 13, a project of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Ad Committee’s Top Funders Californians to Restore Local Taxpayers’ Right to Vote on Taxes, sponsored by homeowners, businesses, and taxpayers and California Business Roundtable.
California State and counties with the biggest populations are overspending our tax revenue,
outpacing property tax bills we receive. Over the years family homes built have been new
property tax revenues for the State of California. With this extra yearly property tax revenue
we are still seeing the State of California saying they do not have enough. Why?
Voters, pay attention to what's happening with our State of California property Tax revenues
and our California State Income Tax revenues. CA Employment Development Department and its Fraud in the Billions of dollars; Fire protections eroded by incompetent heads of government where not being properly budgeted; CA tax revenues being used to go against needed gas and oil productions in California for fanatic climate change rhetoric; Fraud in Cal-Fresh funding non-citizens; CA taxpayers paying taxes that go to Medicaid Frauds; California Farms so overly
regulated by the State of California just up and quit leaving less food for our kitchen tables;
Out Attorney General Bonta, has no program to police unsafe cities through no funding
of voter authorized Proposition 36 as Gov, Newsom kept it out of the CA Budget;
We have taxes paid with Police Departments partially defunded. There's all this loose tax revenue
that's gone astray, but where?
We should not have to pay extra CA State and CA property taxes when no tracking of taxes is performed. Our current California State government and its California State Legislature has no
obvious plan to control California Tax revenue spending. California Public Schools in the
largest California cities deplete their revenues knowingly, planning to do so with approving teacher contracts knowing they cannot pay for them. Voter's beware that California is a state where fraud is the reason attempted California State imposed taxation goes up and up and up all backed by the corrupted California State Court System even by the California State Supreme Court. Businesses are leaving California, why? California State Government has the idea that us taxpayers who are wealthy must pay their fair share under Collectivism. In California this is the taxpayer who pays eventually if not already. How can you run a business that has California based
overhead in major part done by California State Government with its excessive regulations by its unsound economic principles that California State Government runs by.
-A Concerned Native California Citizen-