Tag Archives: taxes

Protesters descend on Chevron tax hearings

About 50 protesters, including some top Richmond elected officials, demonstrated outside county government buildings in Martinez Thursday before filing into a hearing aimed at resolving...

Chevron blames Richmond regulations, calls the county inept, as property tax hearing opens

The last time Chevron and Contra Costa County clashed over property taxes, the hearing took two years. The question then was how much the refinery...

Council to put sales tax hike to voters in June

With no dissenting votes, the council on Tuesday decided to ask local voters to approve a half-cent raise in their sales tax.

City may owe Chevron $26 million

The oil company filed a lawsuit to reduce the property tax paid over three years.

Local civic group discusses Chevron’s role in community

The Point Richmond Neighborhood Council is a small but well-informed civic association. On Dec. 30, they took on the biggest topic in town: Chevron Corp.

Struggle between Chevron and city intensifies

As a political and legal standoff between the city and its biggest taxpayer deepens, Chevron Corp. officials are hinting that their 107-year stay in Richmond...

Property tax proposed for June ballot

Richmond is the only city in Contra Costa County without its own paramedics, and council members said Tuesday that it will remain that way unless...