
Today’s Commentary: HJTA’s Coupal Comments on Formation of Tax Review Panel
Yesterday the Governor announced the twelve person membership of a special state task force that is being charged with reviewing the way that the tax system works in California, with the idea of recommending an overhaul to try and move away from the current volatile system where tax revenues are very mercurial, shooting up and down depending on external factors.
We’ll be writing more next week about this Commission, but FR reached out to one of California’s leading tax policy experts, Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, for his reaction to the formal formation of the panel.
Perhaps in another time, and another place, I would be more sanguine about the formation of a commission to review California’s broken tax structure. But if there were ever a reason to be skeptical, it is on full display in the manner in … Read More