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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law
Revenue and Taxation Code
Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 2. Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law
Chapter 7. Overpayments and Refunds.
Article 4. Recovery of Erroneous Refunds
Section 8174
8174. Interest on erroneous refunds. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, if the department finds that neither the person liable for payment of tax nor any party related to that person has in any way caused an erroneous refund for which an action for recovery is provided under Section 8171, no interest shall be imposed on the amount of that erroneous refund until 30 days after the date on which the department serves a notice of determination for repayment of the erroneous refund to the person. The act of filing a claim for refund shall not be considered as causing the erroneous refund.
(b) This section shall be operative for any action for recovery under Section 8171 on or after January 1, 2000.
History—Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 929 (AB 1638), in effect January 1, 2000. Stats. 2024, Ch. 499 (SB1528), in effect January 1, 2025, substituted "department" for "board" after "if the" and "department serves" for "board mails" after "which the" in the first sentence of subdivision (a).