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John Parulis
VIDEO- San Rafael City Council Votes to Table Decision on Tax Cap
San Rafael City Council Tam Tax Cap Exemption Meeting
Good news! At its 1/17/17 meeting, the San Rafael City Council voted 4-1 to table indefinitely acting on the Transportation Authority of Marin’s request for endorsement of a plan that could have ultimately resulted in the sales tax rate throughout Marin rising as much as 0.5%. To move forward with its plan, TAM was seeking endorsements from all 12 Marin jurisdictions for the first stage of a two part plan to raise the transportation sales tax in Marin. (Part one involved seeking a legislative waiver exempting Marin from the state’s sales tax cap; this would have been followed by a sales tax hike measure on Marin’s 2018 ballot.)
Without support from the City Council of San Rafael, the city with the largest population and highest existing sales tax rate, we’re hopeful that TAM will set aside, for at least two (and more probably 3-4) years, any effort to raise Marin’s transportation sales tax.
This is a first-round victory for Marin taxpayers, who are reeling from the financial strain of a spate of recent tax increases and are urging local officials to look for fiscally sound alternatives to seeking further revenue hikes.
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