How Prop 13 Arizona works:
ü Purchase price is used as the basis for taxation instead of speculative assessments. Properties purchased before January 1, 2004 will use 2003 Full Cash Value as their tax basis until resold.
ü No more assessed values or need for appeals
ü Limits valuation increases to no more than 2% per year
ü Caps total tax at 0.5% of valuation for all residential properties (including non-owner occupied residential property) and 1% of valuation for all other real property (commercial property, vacant land).
ü Eliminates overrides and exceptions to the tax caps
ü Click here to calculate your property tax savings with Prop 13 Arizona
Petition Signature Drive Concludes
The Prop 13 Arizona petition signature drive has concluded and we will not be on the November 2010 ballot. We came very close but in the end came up just shy of the required number of signatures.
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our statewide campaign team, Arizona voters know they don’t have to settle for Arizona’s complicated and unpredictable property tax system. Each signature we gathered served the purpose of educating voters and that knowledge will carry forward with us.
We will be working through the summer so when high and unaffordable property tax bills arrive in September we will be ready with our message of limiting property taxes with a constitutional amendment.
Our plan includes a November filing for official status. We will begin to collect signatures again once we have commitments in terms of funding and signature pledges in place that assure qualifying for the ballot.
Significant change is rarely an easy feat. The Prop 13 Arizona Committee is steadfast in its pledge to bring much needed property tax reform to our state. Our campaign continues.
We will re-file Prop 13 Arizona for the next election
Check back for details
We will have updated information throughout the summer
and we will be ready when Arizona taxpayers receive unexpetedly high
property tax bills this fall.
Questions? Info@Prop13Arizona.com
Your lower assessed valuation will not lead to a lower property tax bill.
By state law, when valuations go down tax rates automatically go up so taxing districts always get as much
or more tax revenue as last year. The system is rigged against us! After the automatic rate increase, some taxing
districts met and voted an additional rate increase.
In the 2009 tax year, some people with 25% lower assessed values received 30% higher tax bills. It will be worse
in 2010 with the state shifting some of its costs to our property tax bills. 2010 tax bills arrive in September/October.
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PVUSD spent $49 MILLION to "green" buildings
The Arizona Republic, by Eugene Scott, December 23, 2009, print edition only. While cutting teacher pay, laying off teachers, and pleading poverty, Paradise Valley Unified School District was busy spending $49. MILLION on no bid contracts to "green" some offices, expand the Benefits Office, buy sustainable green recycled carpet at 31 sites and sustainable roofs at 16 locations. After passing a $161 million school construction bond in 2005, PVUSD plans another bond issue in 2010 to raise your property tax bill even more. Don't forget the 10% override they just passed in November 2009, predicting dire consequences if you didn't vote to raise your property taxes.
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PVUSD superintendent gets $10,000 pay increase plus more perks
The Arizona Republic, by Eugene Scott, June 15, 2010. PVUSD raised our property taxes with a 10% M&O override in November 2009 and supported the 18% sales tax rate increase. Apparently money wasn't so scarce after all.
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