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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Integrated Waste Management Fee Law

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 23. Integrated Waste Management Fee Law

Chapter 6. Administration

Article 2. The California Taxpayers' Bill of Rights

Section 45870


45870. Claim for reimbursement of bank charges by taxpayers. (a) A feepayer may file a claim with the board for reimbursement of bank charges and any other reasonable third-party check charge fees incurred by the feepayer as the direct result of an erroneous levy or notice to withhold, erroneous processing action, or erroneous collection action by the board. Bank and third-party charges include a financial institution's or third party's customary charge for complying with the levy or notice to withhold instructions and reasonable charges for overdrafts that are a direct consequence of the erroneous levy or notice to withhold, erroneous processing action, or erroneous collection action. The charges are those paid by the feepayer and not waived or reimbursed by the financial institution or third party. Each claimant applying for reimbursement shall file a claim with the board that shall be in a form as may be prescribed by the board. In order for the board to grant a claim, the board shall determine that both of the following conditions have been satisfied:

(1) The erroneous levy or notice to withhold, erroneous processing action, or erroneous collection action was caused by board error.

(2) Prior to the erroneous levy or notice to withhold, erroneous processing action, or erroneous collection action, the feepayer responded to all contacts by the board and provided the board with any requested information or documentation sufficient to establish the feepayer's position. This provision may be waived by the board for reasonable cause.

(b) Claims pursuant to this section shall be filed within 90 days from the date the bank and third-party charges were incurred by the feepayer. Within 30 days from the date the claim is received, the board shall respond to the claim. If the board denies the claim, the feepayer shall be notified in writing of the reason or reasons for the denial of the claim.

History—Stats. 1993, Ch. 589, in effect January 1, 1994, substituted "complying" for "comply" after "change for" in subdivision (a). Stats. 2001, Ch. 543 (SB 1185), added "and any other … check charge fees" after "of bank charges" in subdivision (a), added "and third party" prior to "charges include a" in subdivision (a), added "or third party's" after "a financial institution's" in subdivision (a), added "or third party" after "the financial institution" in subdivision (a), effective January 1, 2002. Stats. 2013, Ch. 253 (SB 442), in effect January 1, 2014, added ", erroneous processing action, or erroneous collection action" after "erroneous levy or notice to withhold" and substituted "feepayer" for "fee payer" throughout the section; substituted "feepayer" for "taxpayer" after "fees incurred by the" in the first sentence of, substituted "or reimbursed" for "for reimbursement" after "feepayer and not waived" in the third sentence of, and added "erroneous" after "Prior to the" in the first sentence of paragraph (2) of, subdivision (a); and substituted "the bank and third-party charges were incurred by the feepayer" for "of the levy or notice to withhold" after "90 days from the date" in the first sentence of subdivision (b).