The Sacramento County Taxpayers League is now in its 44th year of service to the taxpayers of Sacramento County, and the League continues to be the "voice of the taxpayer", thanks to the outstanding support of its Members.

The League researches tax issues, utility rates, bond measures, and monitors handling of County and its Cities' Budgets and expenditures. Passage of Propositions 62 and 218 guarantee taxpayers the right to vote on property and other related taxes. Our use of these laws over the past 5 years has saved County residents many millions of dollars. In1998 we led in the defeat of the County's ¼ cent sales tax increase by 68.1% of the vote, saving County Taxpayers over $150 million in sales taxes during the past 5 years. In 1999 we stopped the City of Sacramento's illegal transfer of $10 million of its utility fees to its general fund, and convinced the County to end a $5 million transfer of money, paid at waste transfer sites, to the County's General Fund. In October 2001 we successfully challenged a proposed $2.40 monthly garbage rate increase, saving $5 million per year, and offset further rate increases for 3 years.

In 2002, we won our lawsuit challenging the County's violation of Prop.62, wherein they illegally passed a Utility Tax in 1991, and an increase in the Transient Occupancy Tax in 1994, paid by visitors to our hotels, without voter approval. We put Measure T on the 2002 November ballot, to reduce the City's 7.5% Utility User Tax (UUT) to 2.5% over a 5 year period, and to extend the City's UUT rebate program to EVERY household and person in the City of Sacramento whose yearly income is $25,000 or less. Although Measure T was defeated, we won half the battle! To blunt Measure T's rebate appeal, the City passed a Resolution, virtually identical to our rebate proposal, 13 days before the election. As a result, about 47,000 low-income taxpayers in the City are now eligible to recover over $2.5 million a year in utility taxes they paid in 2003. This would not have happened without Measure T.

In 2006 we were part of the coalition that defeated the SMUD annexation of PG&E customers in Yolo County and the city and county's attempt to raise the sales tax for a new Kings' arena.

We need the support of new Members to increase our strength. Please consider joining us such that we can continue our efforts to assure taxpayers in the County of Sacramento and its Cities have an organization to protect them from monetary abuse fostered by some of our elected officials.