Section 830 Of Article 5. Property Statements From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 5.
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. (a) If the request of the board is mailed before the lien date
as defined in Section 722, the property statement shall be filed
with the board by March 1, and shall be in such detail as the board
may prescribe.
(b) If the request of the board is mailed on or after the first
day of January following the lien date, the property statement shall
be filed with the board within 60 days after the request is mailed.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, if any person fails to file
the property statement, in whole or in part, by March 1, or by that
later date to which the filing period is extended pursuant to
subdivision (b) or Section 830.1, a penalty shall be added to the
full value of the assessment of so much of the property as is not
timely reported as follows:
(1) For any part of the property statement relating to the
development of the unit value of operating property, the penalty
shall be 10 percent of the unit value.
(2) For any part of the property statement, not relating to the
development of the unit value of operating property, that lists or
describes specific operating property, the penalty shall be 10
percent of the allocated value of the property, which penalty shall
be added to the unit value.
(3) For any part of the property statement that lists or describes
specific nonunitary property, the penalty shall be 10 percent of the
value of the property.
(4) If the failure to timely file a property statement is due to a
fraudulent or willful attempt to evade the tax, a penalty of 25
percent of the assessed value of the estimated assessment shall be
added to the assessment. A willful failure to file a property
statement as required by Article 5 (commencing with Section 826)
shall be deemed to be a willful attempt to evade the tax.
(5) No penalty added pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4)
may exceed twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of full value. In
addition, if a penalty has been added pursuant to paragraph (1), (2),
or (3), if a claim for refund seeking the recovery of that penalty
has been filed by the state assessee contesting the penalty within
three months of the due date of the second installment, and the state
assessee initiates an action in the superior court within one year
of the filing of the claim for refund, the state assessee is not
subject to any further penalties on subsequent assessments for
failure to comply with any subsequent request seeking information or
data with respect to the same issue as set forth in the claim for
refund filed within the time limits set forth above, until the
assessment year after a final decision of the court, and then only
with respect to a failure to comply with a request for information
with respect to assessments after a final decision of the court. For
purposes of this paragraph, "same issue" means the type of
information that is the subject of the disputed request for
information.
(d) Any person who subscribes to the board's tax rate area change
service and who receives a change mailed between April 1 and May 1,
shall file a corrected statement no later than May 30 with respect to
those parts of the property statement that are affected by the
change.
If that person receives a change mailed after May 1, a corrected
statement shall be filed no later than the 60th day following the
mailing of that change.
(e) Penalties incurred for filings received after June 30 may be
included with the assessments for the succeeding fiscal year.
(f) If the assessee establishes to the satisfaction of the board
that the failure to file the property statement or any of its parts
within the time required by this section was due to reasonable cause
and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the
absence of willful neglect, the board shall order the penalty abated,
in whole or in part, provided the assessee has filed with the board
written application for abatement of the penalty within the time
prescribed by law for the filing of applications for assessment
reductions.