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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Imperial County Farm Bureau presents resolution to supervisors seeking to return control of 80,000-90,000 acres of tax-deeded lands from California state to local agencies, arguing revenue belongs to county. State earns $150,000 annually from rentals.
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Opening guns in a battle to wrest control of tax deeded property from the state of California and return it to local taxing agencies were fired by the Imperial County Farm bureau Tuesday.
The farm bureau prepared to file copies of its own resolution dealing with the tax deeded property with every public agency in the county and started this phase of the battle by presenting the county board of supervisors with one at their meeting Monday afternoon.
Estimated at somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 to 90,000 acres, the property deeded to the state because of non-payment of Imperial county taxes is a source of revenue to the state when that revenue, the farm bureau declared, rightfully belongs to the county.
"We ask you for the repeal of all legislation that will authorize or permit California to have any part in the administration of tax deeded property or permit it to lease the same or have any interest in rentals accruing from same," the resolution said. "We want you to help get appropriate legislation adopted at the current legislative session to delay the effective date of new legislation for not less than two years in order to permit consideration of a proposition to return to local agencies the sole management, control, and sale of all tax deeded property and to deprive the now existing department in the state controller's office of power over rentals and leases."
The farm bureau contended that state and county taxes were separated 30 years ago and the state is supposed to be supported from sources other than taxes on personal property, such as franchises, inheritance taxes, etc.
R. L. Coor-Pender, district manager of tax deeded land for the state controller's office, said Tuesday that tax deeded property in Imperial county earned the state an approximate gross annual income of $150,000, mostly from rentals. He said the state controller's office had the power to control tax deeded land since 1872 but had not used it until 1936 when the increase in the tax deeded property became a state-wide problem and some uniform
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Imperial County, California
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state earns approximate gross annual income of $150,000 from rentals on tax-deeded property in imperial county.
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Imperial County Farm Bureau fires opening shots in battle to return control of tax-deeded property from state to local agencies by presenting resolution to county board of supervisors on Monday afternoon and preparing to file with other public agencies. Resolution seeks repeal of legislation allowing state administration, leasing, and interest in rentals; requests delay of new legislation for two years to consider returning sole management to local agencies. Property estimated at 80,000 to 90,000 acres deeded to state due to non-payment of taxes, providing revenue farm bureau claims belongs to county. State and county taxes separated 30 years ago; state power over land since 1872, used from 1936 due to statewide problem.