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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024

Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 24. Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees

Chapter 3. Determinations

Article 1. Returns and Payments

Section 46157


46157. Relief of interest. (a) If the department finds that a person’s failure to make a timely return or payment was due to a disaster, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the absence of willful neglect, the person may be relieved of the interest provided by Sections 46153, 46154, 46160, and 46253.

(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person seeking to be relieved of the interest shall file with the department a statement under penalty of perjury setting forth the facts upon which the person bases the claim for relief.

(c) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the department may grant relief of the interest for any person in an area identified in a state of emergency proclamation made by the Governor for the period the state of emergency proclamation is effective, regardless of whether the person has filed a statement with the department pursuant to subdivision (b).

(2) The department may grant the relief in paragraph (1) only during the first 12 months following the issuance of the state of emergency proclamation or the duration of the state of emergency, whichever is less.

History—Stats. 2000, Ch. 923 (AB 2894), in effect January 1, 2001, substituted "46154, 46160" for "46155" after "Sections 46153," in subdivision (a). Stats. 2022, Ch. 474 (SB 1496), in effect January 1, 2023, substituted "department" for "board" throughout the section; substituted "Except as provided in subdivision (c), any" for "Any" before "person", substituted "the person" for "he or she" before "bases", and "the" for "his or her" before "claim" in subdivision (b); added subdivision (c).