The Mello-Roos tax is named after the sponsors behind the 1982 law authorizing such districts, California State Sen. Henry Mello and State Assemblyman Mike Roos. Their bill was a workaround for ...

School district officials did not respond to requests for comment. You can find out if you pay Mello-Roos taxes and see what your neighbor pays by searching our Mello-Roos map.

Mello-Roos adds an average of $3,545 in extra property taxes a year to each home in this Mello-Roos district. The city began reviewing those bills after an inewsource investigation found two ...

They’re popularly called Mello-Roos Districts — officially community facility districts — and KPBS’ Investigative Newsource offers a way to pinpoint what property owners and their ...

That’s 35 percent of all the school tax money — called Mello-Roos — that’s been collected in Eastlake since 1986, according to an inewsource analysis of public data. School district ...

The sale of the two properties lowered Mello-Roos tax payments by close to 20 percent, officials reported. The best offer for both properties was $1.2 million, according to city documents.

The Poway Unified School District superintendent on Friday said the district working to help resolve inaccurate tax rates in some of the district’s Mello-Roos areas. A KPBS/inewsource ...

The grand jury found that many documents and reports about the tax districts “use general, vague language that does not meet the requirements and intent” of the Mello-Roos law, named for the ...

One Orange County homebuilder is taking the tax-break sentiment to a new level: They’re axing Mello Roos taxes at their latest project. Aliso Viejo-based The New Home Co, says there will be no ...

Residents of two new housing tracts will pay the assessment – $1,600 to $1,791 annually in addition to other property taxes – as part of Mello-Roos community facilities districts, ...