Cal Fire is preparing to mail the next round of fire tax bills to people in the so-called State Responsibility Area. CalFire will bill you every year until we win our class action lawsuit.
Some people have already begun to ask whether they should protest their bill again. If you already filed the Petition for Redetermination according to the instructions on FireTaxProtest.org, and you received a denial that was not due to your Petition being late or incomplete, then you do NOT need to protest again unless you face one of three special circumstances, which are as follows:
- Your parcel is no longer located in the State Responsibility Area
- Your parcel has fewer habitable structures than the number billed, or
- Your bill omitted the $35 credit for a parcel located within the jurisdiction of a local fire protection agency.
If you have not already filed the protest paperwork on FireTaxProtest.org, you should protest now.
Our lawsuit continues to wind its way through the process and we will be in touch with more information when it becomes available. Please be patient as lawsuits typically take a long time.
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