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HomeHealth and Safety CodeDiv. 24Pt. 1Ch. 6Art. 6§ 33670 Tax Increment Financing Division

§ 33670 Tax Increment Financing Division

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§ 33670 Tax Increment Financing Division

Key Takeaways

  • •When a city decides to fix up a run-down area, the property taxes from that area get split in two parts.
  • •The first part goes to the city, county, and other groups like schools, just like normal taxes.
  • •The extra part (because the area is now worth more) goes to pay back the money borrowed to fix up the area.
  • •Once the borrowed money is paid back, all the taxes go back to the city, county, and other groups like normal.

Example

A neighborhood in a city is old and run-down. The city decides to fix it up by building new parks, roads, and houses. To do this, the city borrows a lot of money.

Before the fix-up, the neighborhood's property taxes were $100,000 a year. After the fix-up, the taxes go up to $150,000 a year. The first $100,000 still goes to the city, schools, and other groups. The extra $50,000 goes to pay back the money the city borrowed to fix up the neighborhood.

AI-generated — May contain errors. Not legal advice. Always verify source.

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§ 33670 Tax Increment Financing Division

Any redevelopment plan may contain a provision that taxes, if any, levied upon taxable property in a redevelopment project each year by or for the benefit of the State of California, any city, county, city and county, district, or other public corporation (hereinafter sometimes called “taxing agencies”) after the effective date of the ordinance approving the redevelopment plan, shall be divided as follows: (a)  That portion of the taxes which would be produced by the rate upon which the tax is levied each year by or for each of the taxing agencies upon the total sum of the assessed value of the taxable property in the redevelopment project as shown upon the assessment roll used in connection with the taxation of that property by the taxing agency, last equalized prior to the effective date of the ordinance, shall be allocated to and when collected shall be paid to the respective taxing agencies as taxes by or for the taxing agencies on all other property are paid (for the purpose of allocating taxes levied by or for any taxing agency or agencies which did not include the territory in a redevelopment project on the effective date of the ordinance but to which that territory has been annexed or otherwise included after that effective date, the assessment roll of the county last equalized on the effective date of the ordinance shall be used in determining the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the project on the effective date); and (b)  Except as provided in subdivision (e) or in Section 33492.15, that portion of the levied taxes each year in excess of that amount shall be allocated to and when collected shall be paid into a special fund of the redevelopment agency to pay the principal of and interest on loans, moneys advanced to, or indebtedness (whether funded, refunded, assumed, or otherwise) incurred by the redevelopment agency to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the redevelopment project. Unless and until the total assessed valuation of the taxable property in a redevelopment project exceeds the total assessed value of the taxable property in that project as shown by the last equalized assessment roll referred to in subdivision (a), all of the taxes levied and collected upon the taxable property in the redevelopment project shall be paid to the respective taxing agencies. When the loans, advances, and indebtedness, if any, and interest thereon, have been paid, all moneys thereafter received from taxes upon the taxable property in the redevelopment project shall be paid to the respective taxing agencies as taxes on all other property are paid. (c)  In any redevelopment project in which taxes have been divided pursuant to this section prior to 1968, located within any county with total assessed valuation subject to general property taxes for the 1967–68 fiscal year between two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) and two billion one hundred million dollars ($2,100,000,000), if the total assessed valuation of taxable property within the redevelopment project for the 1967–68 fiscal year was reduced, the total sum of the assessed value of taxable property used as the basis for apportionment of taxes under subdivision (a) shall be reduced by 10 percent for the 1968–69 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter. (d)  For the purposes of this section, taxes shall not include taxes from the supplemental assessment roll levied pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 75) of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code for the 1983–84 fiscal year. (e)  That portion of the taxes in excess of the amount identified in subdivision (a) which are attributable to a tax rate levied by a taxing agency for the purpose of producing revenues in an amount sufficient to make annual repayments of the principal of, and the interest on, any bonded indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property shall be allocated to, and when collected shall be paid into, the fund of that taxing agency. This subdivision shall only apply to taxes levied to repay bonded indebtedness approved by the voters of the taxing agency on or after January 1, 1989. (Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 944, Sec. 5. Effective October 8, 1993. See provisions for inoperation in subd. (a) of Section 34189.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

Key Terms

redevelopmentordinancecorporationportpropertybenefitschoolassessment

Related Statutes

  • § 33672.5 Redevelopment Tax Revenue Allocation
  • § 33680 Redevelopment And School Funding
  • § 33685 Redevelopment Agency Education Funding
  • § 33690 Redevelopment Agency Education Funds
  • § 33401 Tax Exempt Property Payments

References

  • Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
  • California Legislature. Health and Safety Code. Section 33670.
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