California Counties Will Waive Penalties for Homeowners and Small Business Owners Struggling to Pay Property Taxes

According to Senator Mike McGuire, “California Counties have announced this evening they will use their authority to waive penalties for homeowners and small business owners unable to afford their property taxes on April 10.”

Press release from California State Association of Counties (CSAC):
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California State Association of Counties (CSAC) and the California Association of County Treasurers and Tax Collectors issue the following statement regarding the COVID-19 crisis and the April 10th property tax deadline.

“Taking care of Californians is our top priority, and counties, cities, and schools are burning through local reserves to do so. Any delay in payments beyond the April 10 property tax deadline, for individuals or businesses that can pay, will tip local governments into insolvency at a time when our residents need us the most.

Counties will use all existing authority to cancel penalties and other charges for homeowners, small businesses, and other property owners that are unable to pay their property taxes due to circumstances caused by COVID-19 on a case-by-case basis. However, property owners who can pay or that haven’t been directly affected by COVID-19, including international corporations and out-of-state landlords, still need to pay on time to keep critical government services running. Assisting taxpayers in this way is not new to Tax Collectors, who most recently worked to help those who were affected by the Camp and Woolsey fires.

Property taxes only go to local governments—schools, counties, cities and special districts—not to the state or federal government, and directly fund education, health care, hospitals, welfare services, fire protection, and homelessness efforts, to name a few.

Delaying the April 10 property tax payment would take tens of billions of dollars away from local government, create cash flow problems, and cause some to default on their loans, which would have significant long-term effects on all local agencies in California.”

California State Association of Counties (CSAC) is the voice of California’s 58 counties at the state and federal level.

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ED Denson
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ED Denson
3 years ago

And the Measure S cannabis tax?

Chas
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Chas
3 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

Hopefully, they will raise it!!!

Take a handout, it's the California way.
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Take a handout, it's the California way.
3 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

The people who can afford it should wait until the end of the grace period to pay theirs too. It equates to an interest free cash loan from the county. Just make sure you save enough to pay at the end.

truth, freedom, and health.
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https://youtu.be/k05b8aGDCNI

Mr. Denson , what are your thoughts on the potential ramifications of people trading freedom for health security?

One solution isn’t going to work,

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago

“Only through the illusion of fear can the vision of freedom be suppressed.” (Me).

The biggest threat to any government entity is “free people”. By controlling ones ability of basic survival, you now own them. Water, health, fuel, shelter, food, communication, and yes…… even defense.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

As long the cages are gilded people won’t complain.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

You guys are the most fear-based commentors here, ironically enough.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Sometimes facts are scary.

Check yourself with regards to fear based commentary. “We’re all fucked!”- TRB

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Link. I remember saying that, but I want the context

It likely was while you were saying this is just a flu and everyone is over blowing it.

And i bet it had to do with our lack of tests, or the Trumps idiocy in handling anything important.

And then we can compare to your QAnon conspiracies.

Guests
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Guests
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Fanofguest, ulrollover,
thanks foe saying what people are afraid to say.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

Why do you use 8 names a day to spread youtube liars?

Shitva is an anti-vaccine liar.

He claims he invented “email”, but he did not.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190518/23370542236/laying-out-all-evidence-shiva-ayyadurai-did-not-invent-email.shtml

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is not a member of the MIT faculty and did not invent email. In 1980 he created a small-scale electronic mail system used within University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, but this could not send messages outside the university and included no important features missing from earlier systems. The details of Ayyadurai’s program were never published, it was never commercialized, and it had no apparent influence on any further work in the field. He does not “hold the patent for email” or have a copyright on the word email, though in 1982 he did register a copyright claim covering the exact text of a program called “EMAIL.” The U.S. Government has not recognized him as the inventor of email and he did not win the Westinghouse Science Talent Search for his program. Electronic mail services were widely used in the 1960s and 1970s and were commercially available long before 1980. 

Gee, if the basis of his personality is based upon a lie, what else do you think he’s not being honest about?

Boy, the anti-vaccine liars are working overtime to reach anybody now. This is an opportunity to knock them down for good, and they know it.

We the corparation,by the corporation, in corruption we stand
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We the corparation,by the corporation, in corruption we stand
3 years ago

Ordered to stay home and not make a living by the gubberment ,shouldn’t have to pay the gubberment!!!!
Nice try at a last minute cash grab by slimy Humboldt and mendocino last week on here though!!! Gotta keep those theiving supervisors 10,000 a month rolling in while they sit at home and do nothing!!!!!

Ernest Branscomb
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Ernest Branscomb
3 years ago

The only sure things are death and taxes.

What good does it do to put off something that will eventually have to be paid? Do they want to let people wait until they are totally broke to have to pay their taxes?

“Assisting taxpayers in this way is not new to Tax Collectors, who most recently worked to help those who were affected by the Camp and Woolsey fires.”
I would be interested to know how that worked out.

Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago

It’s getting strange out there. The counties offer a little reprieve on taxes and now I am seeing sharks falling from the sky.

Guestss
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Guestss
3 years ago
Reply to  Obliviously

Obviously,
what do you mean?

Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago
Reply to  Guestss

Sharknado marathon on the SciFi channel.

rollin
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rollin
3 years ago

“However, property owners who can pay or that haven’t been directly affected by COVID-19, including international corporations and out-of-state landlords, still need to pay on time to keep critical government services running.”

I guess international corporations and outta state landlords haven’t been affected by COVID-19. Oh wait, yes they have but who gives a shit. They don’t vote in local elections. Plus, international corporations are evil anyway. And we’ll wait til the 5th to tell you that you don’t have to pay on the 10th. This way most people will already have sent that money, that they don’t have, and we’ll get the benefit of bragging about how compassionate and forgiving we were. Politicians and bureaucrats suck! If you want more government, this is what you will get.

Lynn H
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Lynn H
3 years ago
Reply to  rollin

I certainly don’t give a shit.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

only the government can tell you that you can’t go to work by you still need to pay taxes. If the shelter in place lasts two months your property tax should go down the same amount, 1/6. We should also get a refund for the schools being shut down but they’re still collecting operating revenue through property taxes.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

The more people that fall into poverty, the easier they will comply. Than offer “help” through the disguise of “free” amenities and cheap labor. Again, there are too many people, and here we are, trying to save them all. It’s not the solution, only prolonging the truth that we are our own demise.

Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

The schools aren’t shutdown they just won’t allow kids to attend. Restaurants, bars and other businesses have to lay people off but not government entities.

Ernie Branscomb
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3 years ago

They say that “you get the government that you deserve”. You must have been really bad.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

I’m in California, you are too.

We must’ve been good!

Our Governer didn’t wait for Trump to enact legislation.

California was the first State with state-wide shelter in place mandates.

And if you’re watching the state by state totals of cases and deaths, California is doing a helluva job.

We will be out of the top 5 case-load states in 2 days. We will be around #10 in 5 days.

Our deaths are comparatively low to others in the top 10.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Guest
Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

No. Pretty much everyone will get get the virus. If successful, California will just be ticking up nearly the same total but over a longer time.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
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That would be about the only success story out of this failure driven event.

Ernie Branscomb
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3 years ago

I hate to be mister doom and gloom, but they keep talking about ‘flattening the curve’. My understanding of this infection is that a certain number of people have to get it before we form a “herd immunity”. So flattening the curve just lengthens the time that it takes to reach that herd immunity. Maybe they are hoping to discover a cure or a vaccine. Or, when the crap hits the fan, the less crap gives you a better chance to dodge it.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

Flattening the curve is all about Hospitals and resources.

It has nothing to do with herd immunity.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Well Brian , that’s not what Bernie Sanders says…… flatting the curve can have EVERYTHING to do with herd mentality. It’s putting EVERYONE on the same line, and it’s NOT wealthy and rich, it’s the line right above poverty. Enjoy your free cheese, ironically it only comes in one flavor, American.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

You really do have a big crush on Bernie.

Not even Bernie bros talk about him as much as you do.

Closet-supporter.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

Fanofguest,
thanks.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

But it does even if that is unspoken most of the time. The whole idea that there is a curve at all is that cases rise until a certain percentage of immunity is achieved upon which new infections start to taper off. Flattening only means creating a delay in the upsurge to let the process move more slowly.

Maybe if people had that perspective, they would understand that there is an innate balance between the usefulness of effort to prevent infection and the length of time that will have to be maintained. No one wants to be an Italy with hospitals overwhelmed but then no one will want to be still rigorously enforcing economically damaging limitations while everyone else is gone back to activity. Unless of course a “cure” or vaccine can be mass produced and end the need.

Doggo
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Doggo
3 years ago

This virus DOES NOT confer immunity on those who are sickened by it. It will continue to spread until there is a vaccine.
STAY HOME
WEAR A MASK
WASH YOUR HANDS
STAY HOME

Guests
Guest
Guests
3 years ago
Reply to  Doggo

Vaccines are poison.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guests

No they are not.

Fear mongering lying ass commentors like yourself are the poison.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago

Some fun math:

$2.2 trillion from the CARES act. (passed unconstitutionally*)
Another $4 trillion from the Federal Reserve. **
And you get $1200 or 42% of that if you’re a kid ($500).
About 80% of the population is adult or 265 million with 67 million kids.
$318 billion to the adults.
$33 billion to the children (Think of the children!).
Or $351 billion… that’s a lot of money!
But, if the total $6.2 trillion is divided among the population, that equals $18,730 per kid and adult alike. So, who’s getting the other $17,500? Regardless of whether you think we “should” get it, we are all on the hook for it.

Regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, the government actions are clearly not for the benefit of the People. Beware.

*http://congressionalresearch.com/98-988/document.php?study=VOTING+AND+QUORUM+PROCEDURES+IN+THE+HOUSE+OF+REPRESENTATIVES

**https://time.com/5813366/pandemic-financial-crisis-economic-crisis-looms/

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

The proposal was drafted by Senate Republicans and the Trump administration. The bill still needs to be negotiated with Senate Democrats, which McConnell said would happen Friday.

Already some Democrats were criticizing the plan as too focused on help for corporations and were calling for major changes.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818253789/congress-awaits-gop-relief-plan-as-first-lawmakers-test-positive-for-coronavirus

Give Mitch and Don a call about it, so you can bitch on and on about it!

I don’t think you’ve captured all the data or the facts about the 247 pages in your one paragraph breakdown, but that’s just an opinion.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

The Senate bill was voted on with a quorum. The House bill was not. But, heck, it was only the largest spending bill in the history of people-kind.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2020/04/wheres-money-keep-eye-cares-act/164334/

Where’s the Money? Keep an Eye on the CARES Act
With the passage of the $2.3 trillion economic relief bill, things are happening at breakneck speed.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Nice. That was a good read by a good person. And he’s not lacking credibility.

Did you read it?

How does all of this compare to the 2009 Recovery Act’s accountability provisions? The CARES Act is more than two and a half times larger than the 2009 Recovery Act. Its accountability provisions roughly parallel those in the 2009 Recovery Act with increased funding for existing IGs and the creation of a governmentwide, independent oversight body and a one-stop website providing spending transparency to the public.  

A major difference is the availability of current spending data via the DATA Act. The new law does not create a parallel financial data collection system as was done under the 2009 Recovery Act, when reports were required to be submitted directly by recipients to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board but it does require project-level reporting and unique trackable ID numbers for each, that are downloadable and machine-readable. The CARES Act also mandates the first public report to be available months sooner than was required for the 2009 Recovery Act’s first report.

Interestingly, the 2009 law invested about $67 million more in oversight than the CARES Act. In addition, in 2009 there was strong support for oversight efforts in the Obama administration. President Obama designated then Vice President Joe Biden as the focal point for implementing the act and declared: “We cannot tolerate business as usual—not in Washington, not in our state capitals, not in America’s cities and towns. We will use the new tools that the Recovery Act gives us to watch the taxpayers’ money with more rigor and transparency than ever.” Five years later, observers found far less fraud and misuse than originally estimated.  This has been attributed to the oversight and transparency efforts employed. 

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Yes, I read it. Expansion of government is not comforting to me.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

I know.

People like you would have eliminated the CDC and EPA a long time ago. (Like Trump tried to do)

You’d be dead a long time ago if those illusions of self-regulation ever took hold.

Less masks and no tests, kinda a hard sell right now but good luck.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Both masks and test are being produced by private entities not the government.

Unlike you, I have faith in my fellow human; the government, not so much.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Production and distribution are different.

Policies are the basis.

Governments are 100% human.

Your philosophy would see masks @ $20.00 per or the highest bidder, likely no standard of safety or regulated standards.

I could sell you a bunch of shit covered toilet paper as masks and overcharge you in your world.

I’ll give you a deal too.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

It’s private companies doing the distribution as well.

Yes, the government is 100% people; with all the flaws of every human except with the backing of a massive organization that amplifies it’s self-righteousness as the “greater good”.

Keep praying to your government god. I’m sure it will lead you to the promised land.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I’ll take “how much is in a National stockpile under a Quasi libertarian GOP rule” for $300, Alex.

On Distribution:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-prioritizing-allocating-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/

Or

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198704/emergency-covid-19-supplies-fema-states-federal-government

And don’t forget, one of the largest distributers/non producers of our lives was once the USPS.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Nope. The Federal Government is operating as a way station. Actual distribution is carried out by private entities.

The Post Office is quasi-governmental.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Actual distribution is carried out by private entities.

Via policy and orders of the government.

Not too mention price gauging policies and safety standards.

All of which is nonexistant in your dream Gov.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Boy. You do like to quote and talk about trump a lot Real Brian, probably a closet-Trumper. Don’t forget to take your flag down at sunset…..

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

Your original and clever.

And, I’m a liar.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

I told my wife when I get my check, I’m returning to sender.(seriously).

Doggo
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Doggo
3 years ago

So the state steps in after Humboldt officials threaten us with penalties and interest for two weeks.
Thank you CA, BOO Humboldt

40 Year Resident and Taxpayer
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40 Year Resident and Taxpayer
3 years ago
Reply to  Doggo

I received a personal call from our the Humboldt County Tax Collector last Monday addressing my fear and concerns. He said they would be offering what is basically forebearance and he was working with the state of California to get something concrete passed. So…he has been on this issue for at least a week, probably longer. I appreciate his attitude. No- I’m no lover of everything our county does ha ha but I gotta give him some props on this one.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago

So we don’t have to pay property tax until when? What is the deadline extended to?

How is this if it’s not a law?

Anybody?

Thanks.