LOS ANGELES, California — L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that she and the City Council are considering ways to suspend Measure ULA, a controversial real estate transfer tax, during the effort to rebuild areas destroyed by recent wildfires.
Several state and federal lawsuits have called Measure ULA’s constitutionality into question. Tuesday marked the first time that Bass has publicly acknowledged the possibility of suspending the tax.
“We’re looking into that,” Bass said, in response to a question from Breitbart News at a press conference. “Because there’s two schools of thought. One is, is that can’t happen, it has to go back to voters. And the other is, is that it might be able to happen, with action from the council and the mayor’s office. So we’re having that investigated through our attorneys right now.”…