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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
Title 18. Public Revenues
Division 5. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
Chapter 1. Appeals
Article 4B. Other Requests for Relief of Penalties and Interest
Rule 35049
35049. Authority to Grant Relief of Interest Due to Unreasonable Error or Delay and Contents of a Request for Such Relief.
(a) A taxpayer may be relieved of interest imposed under the Sales and Use Tax Law, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Timber Yield Tax Law, Energy Resources Surcharge Law, Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Law, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, and Diesel Fuel Tax Law, if the taxpayer was charged interest due to an unreasonable error or delay:
(1) By CDTFA staff acting in his or her official capacity; and
(2) No significant aspect of the error or delay is attributable to an act or failure to act by the taxpayer.
(b) A taxpayer may be relieved of interest imposed under the Sales and Use Tax Law where the taxpayer's failure to pay the correct amount of use tax with respect to a vehicle or vessel registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles was the direct result of an error by an employee of the Department of Motor Vehicles in calculating the use tax due.
(c) A request for relief of interest must:
(1) Be in writing;
(2) Specifically identify the error or delay that caused the taxpayer requesting relief to be charged interest;
(3) Specifically identify the period for which interest relief is sought; and
(4) Be signed by the taxpayer requesting relief under penalty of perjury.
(d) A request for relief of interest may also be filed online through CDTFA's website at www.cdtfa.ca.gov.
Note.—Authority cited: Sections 15570.40 and 15606, Government Code; Section 25215.74, Health and Safety Code; Sections 7051, 8251, 9251, 30451, 34013, 38701, 40171, 41128, 42020, 42103, 43501, 45851, 46601, 50152, 55301 and 60601, Revenue and Taxation Code.
Reference: Sections 6593.5, 7658.1, 8878.5, 30283.5, 38455, 40103.5, 41097.5, 43158.5, 45156.5, 46157.5, 50112.4, 55046 and 60212, Revenue and Taxation Code.
History—New regulation filed March 19, 2018, as an emergency; effective and operative March 19, 2018. Regulation refiled September 17, 2018, as an emergency; effective and operative September 17, 2018. Regulation refiled December 17, 2018, as an emergency; effective and operative December 17, 2018. Certificate of Compliance transmitted to OAL on February 20, 2019 and filed March 19, 2019. (The regulation incorporates provisions from regulation 5246 in division 2.1.)