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RESOLUTION NO. 714
RESOLUTION OPPOSING LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY THE CO'LiNTY SUPERVISORS
ASSOCIATION TO PROVIDE FOR A 4% SALES TAX.
WHEREAS, there has been presented for consideration a proposal of the
County Supervisors Association, supported by the California Retail 1-ililerchants
Association, to provide for a 4% State Sales Tax of which amount 3% will be
retained by the Stat aI� q of 1% of th6 amount collected within the incorpo-
rated cities to be returned to the cities ; 4 of 1% collected within the cities
to be returned to the counties, and lo" collected within the unincorporated
areas to be returned to the countlea.and
WHEREAS, at this time there is a powerful effort directed towards assump-
tion by the State of the administration, collection and enforcement of city
sales, use and license taxes, and
WHEPEAS9 this movement is activated, not by the cities , but by others
whose interest do not necessarily parallel those of cities, and
WHEREAS, cities must not permit further inroads into their powers granted
by either their charters or the State Legislature, and
WHEREAS,. no further centralization of the cities functions in the State
should take place, as each city has unique and specialized problems with re-
lation to their needs for revenue and the methods for securing it, which guar-
antee of local authority has historically been granted by the State Legisla-
ture down through the yearso and
WHEREASv the formulas for tax apportionment to local areas which are pro-
posed, are both impractical and extremely inequitable, and
WHEREAS, this proposal is In effect forcing a local sales tax upon the
cities which do not have, nor may not desire to he've, a sales tax, and
WHEREAS, the Dower to tax Is a 'potent force - a fundamental right of
municipalities whichv if abandoned by them, leads to a dangerous conditiono
the complete centralization of all government and abandonment of the Home-
Rule principle, and
WHEREAS, the loss to municipalities of their power to tax will eventually
result in their becoming simply concentrations of populations with no individ-
uality and depriving them of their prerogatives of self-government and self-
control, and simply furnishing services to the residents at the will of the
State which would control the purse strings,
HOW, TITEREFOREo BE IT RESOLVEDO that the City Council of the City of
Redlands hereby opposes the enactment of the proposal being supported by the
County Supervisors Association and the Retail Merchants Association.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy
of a Resolution passed by the Council of the City of Redlands, California,
on Seotember 16th, 1952.
HARRY R. WHA LEY
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