Section 7271.1 Of Chapter 3. Administration From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 1.6. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Quarterly taxes" means the total amount of transactions and
use taxes transmitted by the board to a district for a calendar
quarter.
(2) "Refund" means the amount of transactions and use taxes
deducted by the board from a district's quarterly taxes in order to
pay the district's share of a transactions and use tax refund due to
one taxpayer.
(3) "Offset portion" means that portion of the refund which
exceeds the greater of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or 20 percent
of the district's quarterly taxes.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), if the board has
deducted a refund from a district's quarterly taxes which includes an
offset portion, then the following provisions apply:
(1) Within three months after the board has deducted an offset
portion, the district may request the board to transmit the offset
portion to the district.
(2) As promptly as feasible after the board receives the district'
s request, the board shall transmit to the district the offset
portion as part of the board's periodic transmittal of transactions
and use taxes.
(3) The board shall thereafter deduct a pro rata share of the
offset portion from future transmittals of transactions and use taxes
to the district over a period to be determined by the board, but not
less than two calendar quarters and not more than eight calendar
quarters, until the entire amount of the offset portion has been
deducted.
(c) The board shall not transmit the offset portion of the refund
to the district if that transmittal would reduce or delay either the
board's payment of the refund to the taxpayer or the board's periodic
transmittals of transactions and use taxes to other districts.