HJTA announces initiative to “Repeal the Death Tax”

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, California’s leading taxpayer advocacy group, will go forward with an initiative to restore the right of parents to transfer their home and limited other property to their children without reassessment to market value.The announcement follows the 3-4 vote in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee...

HJTA Files Initiative to Repeal the Death Tax Imposed by Proposition 19

SACRAMENTO—The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed an initiative with the attorney general’s office on Thursday that aims to reverse the tax increase on parent-child transfers of property that was part of Proposition 19, a constitutional amendment narrowly passed in November 2020. “Many voters did not realize that Prop. 19 took...

HJTA announces support for ACA 9 to reverse new inheritance tax

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association today announced its strongest support for Assembly Constitutional Amendment 9, introduced by Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Granite Bay) on Monday. ACA 9 would reverse the new inheritance tax on property passed from parents to children, a little-noticed part of Proposition 19 affecting middle-class families that have...