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Election 2020: Prop. 19 Would Allow Some Homeowners to Hold On to Low Property Tax Rates … And More

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Proposition 19 on California’s November ballot would amend the state’s property tax structure in multiple ways. First, it would allow homeowners who are either age 55 and older, severely disabled or lost their home to wildfire to take their existing property tax rates with them when they move multiple times. Second, it would partly clamp down on what’s known as the Lebowski Loophole, which allows people who inherit homes from their parents to keep the existing tax rate. The measure would also direct some funding to wildfire prevention efforts. We break down Prop. 19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Mina Kim.

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We turn now to Proposition 19, which would change the state's property tax structure in multiple ways and use the projected revenue to fund wildfire protection. Here to break it down with us is Liam Dillon of the Los Angeles Times. Thanks so much for joining us. Good morning. Thanks for having me. And so can you just first talk about the three main things that Prop 19 would do?

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I'm going to try very hard, but this is very complicated. One of the most complicated measures

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that I've come across in my time of covering California politics. And so essentially, as you said,

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there are three main areas. There's a new tax break for older homeowners, so it's 55 and older, where when they move to,

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were they to move to a new more expensive property, they could take their lower property tax

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payments that they have at their existing house and then blend that with the market value of

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the new home that they're getting to reduce what that property tax payment

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would be. And so that's number one, and that's a pretty big benefit to those folks. Secondarily,

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