L.A. city and county battle over business tax

As both the city and county of Los Angeles face severe budget crunches, a new feud is brewing between the two governments over taxes, with hundreds of businesses caught in the middle.

[Setag]

You have screwed everything else in Los Angeles you might as well go and screw this up to. People and businesses are leaving your sorry dirty third world town because it sucks. And becasue of you idiots.

[Bob Weber]

I live in Sunland Tujunga. It has a city councilman, We have a Fire Station LASD.
We have schools in LAUSD.
Mike Antonovich may still have an Administrative Assistant that lives in Alpine Village, part of LA City, and Sunland Tujunga.
No wonder we cant get our roads and street lights to be fixed, no one knows we are here.

[Nina Royal]

I am V.P. of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council. Sunland-Tujunga is in the City of Los Angeles.

[SBE]

The State Board of Equalization would be happy to investigate this also since taxes do fall under their jurisdiction. Yes the city does have a border of jurisdictional bounderies. Unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County don't have no allegiance to cities that are incorporated. Their representations come from Los Angeles County administration. State of California code would put an end to City of Los Angeles collections done beyond their line of service. Unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County are not under any cities taxation laws. Unincorporated areas belong and fall under LACOUNTY codes. If business taxes were collected not on behalf of Los Angeles County these taxes must be returned to tax payers, or else the State Board of Equalization can come in and take those revnues from the city and let it float in their general fund until the City of Los Angeles retracts its taxation and County of Los Angeles can resume its right of taxation to those businesses. The City of Los Angeles has overstepped its legal ordinance on boundery lines.

[SBE]

Nina Royal wrote:

I am V.P. of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council. Sunland-Tujunga is in the City of Los Angeles.

Some areas of Tujunga are unincorporated serviced by LACOUNTY meaning you probably see some LACo Sheriff within unincorporated areas and those serviced by LA City would have LAPD. Some cities have unincorporated areas very near to their service areas. If the city wants all of Tujunga they can push for that kind of change through the State of California. But in the mean time City of Los Angeles needs to follow tax law. Seriously State Board of Equalization can get involved.

[Concerned]

Im very distraught on how city can overstep its bounderies.

[other cities]

It is hard to believe the city thinks it can tax beyond its jurisdiction. Other cities implement illegal acts such as Los Angeles city government, no they dont. Shame on you LA CITY. The county of Los Angeles should tax all withing city limits and apply that same tax rule you guys are pooling. If anything i have seen many business from City of lOS Angeles operate in unincorporated areas of LA county, and neighboring cities.

[CONSTITUTION]

Nina Royal wrote:

I am V.P. of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council. Sunland-Tujunga is in the City of Los Angeles.

You get to take over if the President becomes incapacitated.

[Nina Royal]

This is all speculation. Where is the proof it actually happened. Someone would have to be very stupid to pay city tax when they know they are not part of the city, but ony county. Edison provides the County with water and power, not the LADWP and the County is patroled by the Sheriffs Dept., not LAPD. Edisonwas busy re-installing power poles in the County Part of Big T last week. During the Station Fire, some L.A. city services didn't even know Sunland-Tujunga was part of L.A. I'm not buying the statement that L.A. is taking tax money that belongs to the county. It appears to me that some in the Accounting section of L.A. County doesn't have their act together.

[caasduit]

There is a tea party this Sunday the 18th.
Date:
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Time:
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
George Lane Park
Street:
5520 W L-8
City/Town:
Quartz Hill, CA