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Action Alert Update! More time to build support for SCA 4 to Repeal the Death Tax
Thank you for your phone calls and advocacy to help advance Senate Constitutional Amendment 4 (SCA 4). We're very pleased to tell you that Sen. Kelly Seyarto, the author of SCA 4, asked to have it pulled off the agenda of the Senate Governance and Finance Committee's April 19th hearing because more senators are interested in signing on in support of the measure. At this time, it appears that the committee will hold a special hearing on SCA 4 on May 10.
So we're at a critical moment and we need your help more than ever. Please call your representatives — you can look up their names and contact info at findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov — and ask them to become co-authors of SCA 4. Even if you have already called, a polite follow-up call to ask if they'll become co-authors will be very helpful.
Please ask your friends and neighbors to call, too. SCA 4 affects every California family — not just homeowners, but many renters, too. Family-owned apartment buildings that are reassessed to market value after a death in the family may have to be sold because the new tax bill is unaffordable.
No family should ever be taxed out of the property their parents worked so hard to acquire.
On Tuesday morning (today, April 18) at 10:00 a.m., HJTA VP of Communications Susan Shelley will be the guest of Dr. Rosie Milligan on her internet radio show to talk about SCA 4 and the important effort to Repeal the Death Tax. You can listen live online at this link: https://innerlightradio02.webs.com/ or at drrosie.com.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jon Coupal
President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
P.S. SCA 4 could be on the ballot as early as March 5, 2024, if we make enough phone calls to persuade two-thirds of the Legislature to vote yes. It’s not impossible — in 1986, the nearly identical measure that became Proposition 58 passed the Legislature unanimously. So please call your representatives and urge them to co-author SCA 4 to protect California families! Look up their names and contact information at findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov. Thank you!
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