Jul 12, 2018 | Updates
We’re pleased to provide this update of our ongoing efforts to obtain refunds for property owners who paid the state’s now-suspended “fire prevention fee.” On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed its opening brief and a fourteen-volume...
Apr 15, 2018 | Updates
YOUR PHONE CALLS ARE NEEDED NOW: On Wednesday, April 18, the Senate Governance and Finance Committee will hear Senate Bill 1044. HJTA SUPPORTS THIS BILL, which would permanently repeal the State Responsibility Fire Prevention Fee, otherwise known as the fire tax, and...
Mar 6, 2018 | Updates
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed its Notice of Appeal in the fire prevention fee case on March 1st. Within ten days we will be filing our notice designating the record on appeal. As regular recipients of these emails know, the annual fire prevention fee has...
Dec 12, 2017 | Updates
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association plans to appeal today’s decision by the Sacramento Superior Court dismissing their legal challenge against the state’s past collection of a “fire prevention fee” from rural homeowners. “Dismissal of...
Oct 11, 2017 | Updates
We are proud to announce that the fire tax motion for summary judgment has been filed and is set for hearing on December 8th. The motion is accompanied by hundreds of affidavits from fee payers and hundreds more pages of evidence gleaned from the 13,000 pages of...
Jul 25, 2017 | Updates
This week the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 398, purportedly designed to curb carbon emissions. This will lead to another increase of 71 cents on a gallon of gasoline. This comes on top of the 12 cent increase they just approved. (There seems to be no end to the...