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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 20. Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act

Chapter 4. Determination of Surcharge.

Article 6. Interest and Penalties

Section 41097.5


41097.5. Relief of interest. (a) The department, in its discretion, may relieve all or any part of the interest imposed on a person by this part if the failure to pay the surcharge is due in whole or in part to an unreasonable error or delay by an employee of the department acting in the employee’s official capacity.

(b) For purposes of this section, an error or delay shall be deemed to have occurred only if no significant aspect of the error or delay is attributable to an act of, or a failure to act by, the taxpayer.

(c) Any person seeking relief under this section shall file with the department a statement under penalty of perjury setting forth the facts on which the claim for relief is based and any other information which the department may require.

(d) (d) The department may grant relief only for interest imposed on surcharge liabilities that arise during surcharge periods commencing on or after January 1, 2000.

History—Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 929 (AB 1638), in effect January 1, 2000. Stats. 2001, Ch. 251 (AB 1123), substituted "this part" for "Section 41082 and 41095" in subdivision (a), effective January 1, 2002. Stats. 2021, Ch. 432 (SB 824), in effect January 1, 2022, substituted "department" for "board" throughout; substituted "if" for "where" after "this part", substituted "the surcharge" for "tax" after "failure to pay" and "the employee’s" for "his or her" after "acting in" in subdivision (a); substituted "surcharge" for "tax" after "imposed on" and "surcharge" for "taxable" after "arise during" in subdivision (d).