Our Mission
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association is dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the over-reaching and over-spending of government.
We invite you to join us in that mission!
The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association endorses a NO vote:
Measure A: Millbrae Elementary School district $125 parcel tax increase
appearing on the ballot May 2, 2023.
Redwood City Voter Chris Robell Seeks to Invalidate Local Bond Measures
The ballot labels for both Measure S and Measure W are enormously non-compliant and appear to be intentionally so and by design.
County Civil Grand Juror says, "...three Civil Grand Jury reports in nearby counties in just the past two years have highlighted the pervasive problem of deceptive ballot labels...."
Read Chris Robell's April 3, 2023 press release, here.
We are pleased to report...
In the News
Tax groups sue San Jose over gun insurance law
Silicon Valley Business Journal, March 17, 2022
Read the full article here.
...In 2020 the SVTA defeated 9 of 17 ballot measures that were tax increase measures....in savings to Santa Clara County taxpayers--and counting!
...thanks to our legal victory over the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority, taxpayers saved $65,000,000.
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$900,000,000
...in savings to Santa Clara taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure I, the $900,000,000 bond measure in the city of Morgan Hill (March 3, 2020)
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$45,000,000
... in savings to San Mateo taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure V, the $45,000,000 bond measure in the city of San Carlos (Nov. 3, 2015)
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$ 2,000,000*
...in savings to San Mateo County taxpayers!
...thanks to our defeat of Measure G, the five-year-long parcel tax, in San Mateo County (Nov. 6, 2012).
* Figure approximated by the authors of Measure G.