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RESOLUTION NO. 2282 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF l~icasanton URGING STATE ADOPTION OF SENATE BILL !344 WITH CERTAIN AMENDMENTS, RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Pleasanton tl~at this Council go on record as supporting and urging the immediate adoption of Senate Bill 1344 appropriately amended to allow a retailer a credit of 1% against sales tax of all sales made within a city having an ordinance which levies a sales tax measured by gross receipts from sales of tangible personal property of no'~ more nor less than 1%, and appropriately amended to allow a retailer a credit against use tax of 1% of the sales price in all cities having an ordinance which levies a tax on storage, use, or other consumpti~n in said municipality of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer of not more nor less than 1% of the sales price. IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that the following arguments are presented in support of this resolution: 1. The Bill, sponsored by the California Retailers Association, is not a tax increase measure in either purpose or effect but is designed to achieve much needed uniformity of tax and tax procedure throughout the state. Alt cities in the state have the legally unregulated power to levy sales and use taxes and substantially all cities have already done so, an ever increasing number of them in the full amount of 1% referred to in the Bill. 2~ Senate Bill 1344 is specifically so worded that with the sole amendment proposed by this resolution it cannot be, and city support thereof cannot be, construed as endorsement of forfeiture of local autonomy, a subvention, subjecting city sales and use tax to appropriation by the state, nor permitting any basis of accounting between cities and counties other than that the tax be fully returned to each in accordance with actual source of collection. As so amended, the Bill l~orely constitutes a device for: economy, by unification eliminating duplication, of col- lection and administration; equity, by elimination of unfair advantages now enjoyed by a few retailers solely as a result of local sales and use tax free geographic location of place of business; and convenience, by elimination of the current multiplicity of required reports and returns. 3. The Bill as so amended represents the limits of any such proposal for uniformity of sales and use tax throughout the state which could receive substantial city support; however, it would return sufficient moneys to the counties throughout the state to provide much needed relief to present high ad valor,~m tax levies against property within the state. 4. The tax can be collected and returns audited by the State Board of Equalization in the manner and at the time of collection and audit of state sales and use tax without additional cost to the state. IN COUNCIL DULY PASSED this 2tth day of i(a~rch 1953. AYES: Counci]~-nen Abrott, ,~)airo~ Ha:~sen, ~e,ztson and irmnzr~nar, NOES: i~one ABSENT: Ione