California Court Rules That Research Fee On Electric Rates Not A Tax
According to Proposition 13 passed in 1978 any tax increase has to be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature. Proposition 26, passed in 2010, adjusted the meaning of “tax” to include certain fees and charges. The burden of showing that a charge is not a tax is on the state or the locality. SCE argued that EPIC is a tax. The Court noted that the distinction between a tax and a fee can be a bit blurry, but found that EPIC falls on the fee side of the blur.
Freedom From Religion Foundation On Clergy Housing Income Tax Break
Although it is a bit tangential, it is worth noting that Biblical scholars who do not hold with the “inerrancy” of the canonical books, do not believe that Jesus actually said most of the things he is reputed to have said. The “Jesus Project” took an organized approach to this controversy and had scholars vote on 1500 versions of 500 items attributed to Jesus in any extant work from the first three centuries of the Common Era. The “Render Unto Caesar” quote ranked eighth as something that it is likely Jesus actually said. Besides the three synoptic Gospels, it also shows up in the Gospel of Thomas (“Turn the other cheek” comes in first, for whatever that is worth).
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.