San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
Your Property TAX Bill: the Devil is in the Details – but There ARE NO Details
⚠️ Translation Notice: This content has been automatically translated. The original English text is the official version. Translation may contain errors.
⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 4 findings
F1
Our current tax bills contain several unique pieces of information including the property’s assessed value, PROP 13 TAX RATE, and amount due.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
All San Luis Obispo County property tax bills should provide a good faith estimate of how much goes to support at least the six government agencies that receive the largest share thereof. (cid:1)(cid:2) The County Treasurer – Tax Collector’s office reviewed portions of this report and disagreed with our statement that tax bills have sufficient white space to print the names of the entities that receive the bulk of our property tax dollars. The Grand Jury does not agree with their assessment.
F2
Our tax bills do not include information on how the individual taxpayer’s payments are distributed.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The web site “Tax Information on the Web” that is referred to on the tax bill should provide detailed information on how tax payments are disbursed to various schools districts and other agencies.
F3
County officials argue that providing disbursement information on individual property tax bills would be difficult and perhaps expensive.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The County Treasurer-Tax Collector and the Auditor-Controller should proceed promptly to implement recommendations 1 & 2 above.
F4
The web site listed on tax bills does not include a breakdown of how much of tax payer’s payment goes to various school districts and agencies.
No recommendations for this finding