DIG DEEPER: Talk about tax month! Today...

DIG DEEPER: Talk about tax month! Today inaugurates the new half-cent sales tax in the county for transportation. Next week brings the property tax deadline, April 10. Take a breath and it’s April 15 already, the cutoff for filing federal and state income tax returns. . . . There’s consolation in the thoughts of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., though: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”

Deep Pockets

Orange County’s top property tax-payers for 1990-91 fiscal year, in mllions of dollars:

Irvine Co.: $40.8

Pacific Bell: $17.5

Southern Calif. Edison: $14.6

Rockwell International: $6.9

Hughes Aircraft: $5.3

Source: Orange County assessor’s office