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		<title>Oil severance tax measure to start circulating</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/25/oil-severance-tax-measure-to-start-circulating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/25/oil-severance-tax-measure-to-start-circulating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ballot measures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noreen Evans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil severance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Rosa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed ballot measure to enact an oil severance tax, with most of the revenue spent on education, has received its official title and summary and is about to start circulating for petition signatures. Conceived by UC-Berkeley students, the California Modernization and Economic Development Act places a 9.5 percent tax on oil and gas extracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State targeting those who didn&#8217;t file 2011 returns</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/16/state-targeting-those-who-didnt-file-2011-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deadline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be getting a call soon from the state Franchise Tax Board if you didn’t file a state income tax return for 2011. The board is contacting more than one million Californians who didn’t meet the Oct. 15, 2012 deadline. It’s comparing records of filed tax returns with more than 400 million income records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skinner: Dems must choose battles, but fight some</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/12/skinner-dems-must-choose-battles-but-fight-some/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/12/skinner-dems-must-choose-battles-but-fight-some/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Skinner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With supermajorities in both legislative chambers, Democrats must walk a finer line than ever, Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner said Wednesday. My coffee meeting with Skinner, D-Berkeley, yielded a wide-ranging conversation about her party’s considerable new power and the responsibilities that go with it, as well as her own legislative priorities. The former Berkeley councilwoman has just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millionaires to Congress: Take our taxes, please</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/11/millionaires-to-congress-take-our-taxes-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/11/millionaires-to-congress-take-our-taxes-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush tax cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the fiscal cliff approaching, four dozen California millionaires have renewed their call for Congress to let tax cuts expire for America’s richest citizens. The millionaires are part of the national group Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, a movement of more than 200 Americans with incomes over $1 million a year calling for higher taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new push for &#8216;split-roll&#8217; property taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/06/a-new-push-for-split-roll-property-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/06/a-new-push-for-split-roll-property-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Ammiano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[commercial property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of a poll showing support for altering Proposition 13 so commercial properties can be taxed at their current value, a Bay Area lawmaker says he’ll pursue exactly that. The “split roll” property tax, in which all of Proposition 13’s protections for residential properties would remain but commercial properties would be regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists urge tax hike amid &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217; talks</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/activists-urge-tax-hike-amid-fiscal-cliff-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/activists-urge-tax-hike-amid-fiscal-cliff-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=21636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress and the White House might be at loggerheads over how to address the “fiscal cliff,” but activists in California and across the nation aren’t letting any grass grow under their feet. The Action – a broad coalition of labor and progressive groups demanding that the Bush tax cuts be allowed to expire for those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$14 mil in state tax refunds returned, unclaimed</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/14-mil-in-state-tax-refunds-returned-unclaimed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/12/03/14-mil-in-state-tax-refunds-returned-unclaimed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Chiang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California’s Franchise Tax Board announced this morning that it’s holding more than $14 million in returned state income tax refunds, mostly for taxpayers who moved and didn’t update their addresses. “I want to make sure all taxpayers receive their refunds and as quickly as possible,” state Controller John Chiang, who chairs the FTB, said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Monday spree? You owe &#8216;use tax.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/26/cyber-monday-spree-you-owe-use-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/26/cyber-monday-spree-you-owe-use-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding some awesome holiday gift deals on this Cyber Monday? They may not be quite as awesome as you think, Californians: You owe taxes on those purchases. California law imposes tax not only on in-state purchases, but also on items bought out-of-state for use in California; this “use tax” has been law since 1935, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiative to fund higher ed cleared for circulation</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/19/initiative-to-fund-higher-ed-cleared-for-circulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/19/initiative-to-fund-higher-ed-cleared-for-circulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proponent of a proposed ballot initiative that would hike various taxes to fund California’s public universities and community colleges has been cleared to start collecting petition signatures, Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Monday. Here’s the official title and summary prepared by the state attorney general’s office: TAXES TO FUND CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peering ahead toward the &#8216;fiscal cliff&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/09/peering-ahead-toward-the-fiscal-cliff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/09/peering-ahead-toward-the-fiscal-cliff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama today announced he has invited congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle to come to the White House next week to discuss how to handle the tax increases and spending cuts now scheduled to take effect automatically in January. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded: “The year 2013 should be the year [...]]]></description>
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