Thank you so very much for volunteering to collect signatures to Repeal the Death Tax! We have great news. With many bins and boxes of petitions still to count and more arriving every day, we have collected more than 25% of the required signatures to qualify the Repeal the Death Tax Act for the November ballot.

Even though we're past the deadlines we set (which took into account how much time it takes to process the incoming mail and count the signatures), if you have any signed petitions in your hands, please send them in! There may still be time to count them. Send them to this address:

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
921 11th Street, Suite 1201
Sacramento, CA 95814

The news release we sent out today is copied below.

Thank you for your great work and your support of this important campaign!

Sincerely,

Susan Shelley
VP, Communications
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Susan@hjta.org
www.RepealTheDeathTax.com
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HJTA’s “Repeal the Death Tax” initiative reaches 25% of required signatures

Sacramento – With processing of incoming petitions ongoing, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association announced today that it has collected 25% of the required signatures to qualify the Repeal the Death Tax Act for the November ballot.

“This has been an all-volunteer effort, and volunteers were asked to return the signed petitions to us in mid-to-late April,” said HJTA president Jon Coupal. “So they have been coming back over the last week in very strong numbers and getting stronger. We won’t know exactly how many signatures we’ve collected until we get all the boxes and envelopes open and count them.”

May 3 is the last day for the petitions to be submitted to the counties for verification. The initiative needs 997,139 valid signatures of registered voters to qualify for the November 2022 ballot. More than 13,000 volunteers signed up with HJTA to have petitions mailed to them for signature collection.

“There is no question that California voters are energized to reverse the massive tax increase that was a little-known provision in 2020’s Proposition 19,” Coupal said.

The Repeal the Death Tax Act, initiative #21-0015A1, would restore the ability of parents and in some cases grandparents to transfer their home, plus a limited amount of other property, to their children or grandchildren without triggering reassessment of the property to current market value. It does this by reinstating Proposition 58 (1986) and Proposition 193 (1996) to the state constitution, with an update for inflation on the total value of “other property” that may be excluded from reassessment when transferred.

“The state of California has a record budget surplus now exceeding $45 billion,” Coupal said, “It does not need to be raising taxes on families who have just lost a parent.”
 
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About the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Founded in 1978, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is the most influential taxpayer advocacy group in California. HJTA was the organization that passed the historic taxpayer protection measure, Proposition 13, as well as the Right to Vote on Taxes Act, Proposition 218. With offices in Sacramento and Los Angeles and hundreds of thousands of members statewide, HJTA fights to protect taxpayers and to hold state and local government accountable.