17053.44.
(a) For each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2020, there shall be allowed as a credit against the “net tax,” as defined in Section 17039, an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid or incurred by a taxpayer, not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), for losses sustained by a taxpayer and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise that occurred in a qualified disaster area as a result of the disaster that is the subject of the Governor’s declaration.(b) For purposes of this section, “qualified disaster area” means an area where the Governor declared a disaster between July 1, 2017, and January 31, 2018.
(c) In the case where the credit allowed by this section exceeds the “net tax,” the excess may be carried over to reduce the “net tax” in the following taxable year, and succeeding five years if necessary, until the credit is exhausted.
(d) Section 41 shall not apply to the credit allowed by this section.