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Franchise Tax Board's Relief Efforts for the Southern California Wildfires
October 25, 2007
The FTB has provided the following assistance:
- We have suspended tax billings and notices to the impacted areas for at least two weeks until residents have either returned to their homes or made other arrangements. FTB will work with victims experiencing hardships to provide added tax relief on a case-by-case basis.
- We conform to federal tax code sections that provide for disaster tax relief. Most importantly, taxpayers experiencing disaster losses not compensated for by insurance or otherwise can deduction those losses on their prior year tax return (2006 filed earlier this year) and get a quick refund for taxes paid.
- We have/will deploy at least 57 employees to staff the Local Assistance Centers to advise victims of tax relief measures.
- We have deployed two public information officers to OES' Joint Information Centers (Sacramento and Southern California) to assist with media calls, prepare briefing materials, and collect information.
- We have deployed three phone center managers to OES' Sacramento headquarters to assist with staffing needs for their wildfire relief donation phone hotline.
- We have provided a list of 128 available foreign language interpreters of the top languages in the Los Angeles and San Diego Counties area available to be deployed to Local Assistance Centers and shelters associated with the Southern California Wildfires.
- We are posting educational material on our Website to assist victims with disaster tax related matters.