Residents of an unincorporated Orange County, California, town said they were recently overcharged taxes for sharing the same zip code as a neighboring, higher-taxed city.
The issue dates back to last November, when Los Alamitos voters narrowly passed Measure Y, which allowed the city to raise its sales tax by 1.5 percent. The tax hike was proposed due to concerns that Los Alamitos would run out of money due to the economic impact of the global pandemic, coupled with other budgetary worries.
