Certainly everybody in Los Angeles, and not just Los Angeles, is tired of getting soaked.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to the media after a tour of a Metropolitan Water District water recycling demonstration facility in Carson, CA. Tuesday, May 17, 2022. In what may be an illegal tax increase, the board of the Metropolitan Water District just approved a two-year budget that doubles the property tax it collects in its six-county service area.
Metropolitan said it has to raise rates and taxes to cover its operating costs because they’ve been selling less water, first because of drought, and then because of rain.The rate hikes are bad enough, but I’ll bet you’re wondering how it can be legal for the Metropolitan Water District to raise property taxes.
When Proposition 13 passed in 1978, it cut the property tax rate to 1%, but it allowed previously voter-approved bonds to override that limit. The bonds that were approved in 1960 fell into this category. Of course, the expectation was that these bonds would eventually be paid off and the extra charges would come off the property bills at that time.
They chose to double the current property tax rate of .0035% to .007%. For a home with an assessed value of $805,600 the tax will go up from $28.60 to $56.39.Will Attorney General Rob Bonta jump into the 2026 race for California governor?
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