In a victory for landlords, a parcel tax for Davis schools will apply to apartment buildings the same way it does to other types of property, the Fresno Bee reported.
Property in Davis — including multifamily housing – will now be assessed at $204 per parcel under the voter-approved Measure E tax for schools.
The Davis Joint Unified School District board voted last week to scrap the multifamily component of the tax, which assessed apartment buildings at $20 per unit. That would come to $1,000 for an apartment building with 50 units.
With the change, landlords face a $204-per-parcel charge, no matter how many units it contains.
The decision to revise Measure E came after the state Supreme Court ruled that Alameda County’s Measure H violated the law. Like Measure E, the Alameda measure applied a different tax rate based on property type.
“We wanted to be in compliance with current law,” Sheila Allen, president of the school board, said in the Fresno Bee. “We think that we are following current law.”
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