Taxpayer Bill of Rights

• Taxpayer Bill of Rights

• Conservatives Push Taxpayer Bill of Rights

While there is not a lot of hope that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will give the Taxpayer Bill of Rights a vote in the House, our allies in the U.S. Senate such as Sen. Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) will be able to use Senate rules to force votes on different pieces of this agenda. In addition, a number of influential organizations such as Citizens Against Government Waste, the Club for Growth, the American Conservative Union, the Heritage Foundation and the National Taxpayers Union also attended the press conference and pledged to help build support for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

• Human Events
• August 18, 2009

• The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights

• Colorado Constitution

• Oklahoma Group Seeks 'Taxpayer's Bill of Rights'

Members of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs returned last week with a renewed enthusiasm for pushing ahead with a spending limitation on government called the Oklahoma Taxpayer Bill of Rights, commonly known as TABOR. Brandon Dutcher, vice president of policy for OCPA, was among those who attended the TABOR Summit 2005 in Richmond, Va., in an effort to gain more insight into promoting a policy that puts limits on governmental spending.

• The Journal Record
• June 17, 2005

• Taxpayer Representative Bill of Rights.

The proposed Taxpayer Representative Bill of Rights being drafted by the National Society of Accountants (NSA) is designed to be the next crucial step in tax collection reform that has been initiated with the passage of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. NSA believes that the taxpayer bill of rights document is significant to the tax administration process as taxpayer representatives would resolve their clients' problems and differences with the IRS in the fairest and most efficient manner that is possible.

• The National Public Accountant
• Vol. 43 Nbr. 9, November 1998

• Allow Colorado 'Taxpayer Bill of Rights' Leeway

DENVER -- This autumn's angriest political controversy is reaching a roiling boil in this state. Conservatives, especially, are arguing, with their characteristic internecine fury, about whether a change in fiscal facts should cause Colorado to change its mind about a rule restricting government spending. Come November, there will be a referendum on a temporary relaxation of the state's "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" -- TABOR. Adopted by referendum in 1992, it is the nation's most stringent limit on a state legislature's freedom to tax and spend. It says that spending in a given year cannot increase faster than population growth plus inflation -- if both are 2 percent, spending can increase only 4 percent. Furthermore, revenue exceeding permissible spending must be rebated to taxpayers, who ...

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• October 10, 2005

• Oklahoma Supreme Court Throws Out Taxpayer Bill of Rights Petition

A unanimous Oklahoma Supreme Court threw out the pending Taxpayer Bill of Rights petition Thursday, saying it did not carry sufficient valid voter signatures and was circulated by non-Oklahoma residents, in violation of state law. The evidence supports substantial illegal participation of out- of-state circulators," the court said in a brief order signed by Chief Justice Joseph Watt.

• The Journal Record
• September 01, 2006

• Dispute Plants Seeds for Taxpayer Bill of Rights

By Abbe Smith Register Staff asmith@nhregister.com NEW HAVEN -- When West Rock resident Roberta Okwuosa couldn't get the city to mow an overgrown, mosquito-infested plot in her neighborhood in June, she took matters into her own hands.

• New Haven Register
• August 02, 2011

• People Divided in Taxpayer Bill of Rights for Oklahoma Discussion

In a small meeting room at an Oklahoma City church on Tuesday evening, a small group of citizens heard the arguments for and against adopting a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, in Oklahoma. I'm learning about TABOR for the first time tonight, said attendee Calvin Rees, a moderator of the Democrats of Oklahoma Community Forum Web site. State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, spoke in favor of the measure, while Oklahoma Public Employees Association Executive Director Gary Jones spoke against adopting the TABOR plan.

• The Journal Record
• December 29, 2005

• Governor's Race May Hinge On `Taxpayer Bill of Rights' ; Election 2006: The Seven Candidates Are Split Over the Controversial Spending-Cap Question.

Gubernatorial candidates won't begin general-election campaigning in earnest for weeks, but the spending-cap referendum is already emerging as the race's most prominent issue, experts and some voters say. Some say the fight over the "taxpayer bill of rights," as the ballot question is known, could overshadow the governor's race and the three congressional campaigns to be decided Nov. 7. I think it's going to shape the direction of the governor's race," said Ronald Schmidt, a political scientist at the University of Southern Maine.

• Portland Press Herald
• June 25, 2006

• Oklahoma's Taxpayer Bill of Rights Supporters Present Petition Signatures

Supporters and opponents of a proposed Taxpayers Bill of Rights initiative petition crowded in front of the Oklahoma secretary of state's office on Monday as petitioners hauled in 26 boxes full of signatures. Rick Carpenter, the Tulsa Republican who filed the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR initiative petition, said he was worried the group might not get the 220,000 valid signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot. The opposition decided their best chance to win was more or less making sure nobody ever voted on this thing, Carpenter said.

• The Journal Record
• December 20, 2005