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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2025
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
41097. Relief from interest; disaster. (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 41054, 41060, 41082, and 41095.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a 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—Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 947, in effect January 1, 1982. Stats. 2000, Ch. 923 (AB 2894), effective January 1, 2001, added "41060" after "by Sections 41054," of first sentence, added "or she" after "upon which he" of second sentence, added "or her" after "bases his" of second sentence. Stats. 2021, Ch. 432 (SB 824), in effect January 1, 2022, substituted "department" for "board" throughout; substituted "the person" for "he or she" after "facts upon which" and substituted "the" for "his or her" before "claim for relief." in the second paragraph. Stats. 2022, Ch. 474 (SB 1496), in effect January 1, 2023, lettered first sentence of the paragraph to subdivision (a); lettered second sentence of paragraph to subdivision (b) and substituted "Except as provided in subdivision (c), a" for "Any" before "person seeking"; added subdivision (c).