California Business Roundtable Responds to Introduction of New Split-Roll Ballot Measure

Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, which led the fight to defeat Proposition 15, the $12 billion split-roll tax increase on the November 2020 ballot, issued the following statement in response to a new split-roll ballot measure submitted today to the Attorney General:

“The voters of California already made their position on higher taxes clear last year when they defeated Proposition 15, the largest property tax increase in California history. Today, all Californians continue to pay the highest cost of living while businesses are struggling with a sluggish recovery, a crippling labor shortage and a new tax increase to pay off the massive state-created debt in the Unemployment Insurance Fund. While California needs housing reforms to increase supply and improve affordability, a huge tax increase on homeowners, small business owners and renters is not a solution. We are ready to mobilize our broad coalition to once again defeat this measure in 2022.”

About the California Business Roundtable
The California Business Roundtable is a non-partisan organization comprised of the senior executive leadership of the major employers throughout the state – with a combined workforce of more than half a million employees. For more than thirty-five years the Roundtable has identified the issues critical to a healthy business climate and provided the leadership needed to strengthen California’s economy and create jobs. https://www.cbrt.org/