California has the only publicly elected tax commission in the United States. On Tuesday, voters across the state voted to elect members of the state Board of Equalization. In District 4, which ...

Those wanting to reduce California government waste should start with the state Board of Equalization — not tweaking it but disbanding the agency and its elected leaders. We said that at ...

The rapid transition creates a period of uncertainty for the taxpayers that deal with the Board of Equalization, which will retain about 200 of its 4,700 staff positions. Latest U.S.

Much has been reported about California’s Board of Equalization, particularly in light of the March evaluation from the Office of State Audits and Evaluations. Perhaps because we are unique as ...

Starting in January, a Republican will lead California's Board of Equalization which is the state's public agency that oversees tax administration and fee collection.The board voted for Ted Gaines ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) — A troubled state agency charged with collecting more than $60 billion of our tax dollars, is under investigation. Civil servants and executives from the Board of ...

California is the only state with an elected tax appeals board, which touts this fact as if it were a good thing. But it’s not. Appeals from tax rulings should be heard by judges, not politicians.

One, ACA-11, by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), would eliminate the Board of Equalization and hand the rest of its duties and staff over to the state’s other tax agencies; the other ...

No other state has a tax collection system like California’s. No other state would want one. Rather than a single revenue department, California uses three separate agencies to manage different ...

Yee’s plan would restrict the Board of Equalization to the mission Californians approved in 1879 when they voted to create an agency to manage property taxes around the state.

There are two candidates on the Nov. 8 ballot for a four-year term as the Fourth District member of the California State Board of Equalization: Democratic incumbent Mike Schaefer is being ...