With Measure A, Campbell moves into the ranks of California’s highest-taxed cities

SANTA CLARA COUNTY’S hospital lifeline sales tax increase won’t affect Silicon Valley residents equally.

The temporary five-eighths-cent increase, approved by voters last month as Measure A, will bring the sales tax rate to 10% or higher in three cities where voters have already approved existing local tax measures: Milpitas, Campbell and San Jose. Los Gatos residents will see their sales tax rate go from 9.25% to 9.875%. The county’s remaining 11 cities will go from 9.125% to 9.75%.