The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law provide for a deduction and the carryover to specified taxable years of specified losses sustained as a result of certain disasters occurring in California in an area determined by the President of the United States to warrant specified federal assistance or proclaimed by the Governor to be in a state of emergency. Those laws further allow a taxpayer to elect to deduct those disaster losses on the return for the taxable year preceding the taxable year in which the disaster occurred.
This bill would extend these provisions to losses sustained in the County of San Diego as a result of the wildfires that occurred in May 2014 for which the Governor proclaimed a state of emergency.
This bill would make a legislative finding and
declaration relating to the statewide public purpose served by the bill.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.