Current sales tax 8.25% + new County tax ,50% (10 years) + new CA tax .25% (4 years) = 9%.
The Daily Journal (San Mateo), Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff, "County Sales Tax measure passes", 11/7/12.
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Measure A took a strong lead from the beginning and never lost hold until it ended the evening with 64.5 percent of the vote.
The measure increases the sales tax in San Mateo County to 8.75 percent from 8.25 percent except in the city of San Mateo. The city of San Mateo’s sales tax would rise to 9 percent from the current rate of 8.5 percent due to a previous voter-approved measure. Half Moon Bay residents also approved a citywide half-cent sales tax measure. Proposition 30, which looks to be passing, would add another quarter-cent sales tax. The county tax takes effect next April and is estimated to generate $60 million annually for the next 10 years." Read article.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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Nearly two-thirds of San Mateo County voters approved a half-cent sales tax measure aimed at generating millions for a wide range of needs including seismic upgrades at Daly City-based private Seton Medical Center which heavily bankrolled its campaign.
Seton is a private hospital not a general county hospital let them pay for the own fking upgrades.
Just like PGE and the city of Pacifica trying to soak the ratepayers for them not maintaining the system.
Unreal
And Seton hospital charges some of the highest rates in the county for service. They shou;dn't get any tax money. They are the only hospital on the northern Peninsula (except Kaiser).
At Seton they treat the poor along with a lot of other people of who can afford care, have insurance, etc. It is the mission of the Sisters of Charity to treat the poor. Unlike the City of Pacifica they know they have to make money to continue their mission and they do that through smart fiscal management. Maybe Council should take a lesson from the good sisters instead of stumbling around hiding reports and buying new trucks. Couldn't hurt.
These 1/2% and 1/4% tax increases have always been problematic when they didn't add up to a whole number.
At last we're at 9%,unless you shop in HMB, then it's 9 and 1/2%, same old problem.
State should have gone to a straight 10% years ago and avoided some of the cuts they've done along the way.
the hippies will bankrupt the state yet
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