Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2011
 

Text of section operative through June 30, 2011

12423. Estimate where no return filed. (a) If an insurer, surplus line broker, or Medi-Cal managed care plan fails to file a return, the commissioner may require a return by mailing notice to the insurer, surplus line broker, or Medi-Cal managed care plan to file a return by a specified date or he or she may without requiring a return, or upon no return having been filed pursuant to the demand therefor, make an estimate of the amount of tax due for the calendar year or years in respect to which the insurer, surplus line broker, or Medi-Cal managed care plan failed to file the return. The estimate shall be made from any available information which is in the commissioner's possession or may come into his or her possession, and the commissioner shall propose, in writing, to the board a deficiency assessment for the amount of the estimated tax. The proposal shall set forth the basis of the estimate and the details of the computation of the tax.

(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and, as of January 1, 2012, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

History.—Added by Stats. 1961, p. 1986, operative January 1, 1962. Stats. 1995, Ch. 721, in effect January 1, 1996, added "or surplus line broker" after "If an insurer", after "to the insurer" and after "which the insurer", added "or she" after "date or he", in the first sentence; and added "or her" after "come into his" in the second sentence. Stats. 2009, Ch. 157 (AB 1422), in effect September 22, 2009, designated the first paragraph as subdivision (a), deleted "or" and added a comma before "surplus line broker" and added ", or Medi-Cal managed care plan" after "surplus line broker" three times, and added commas before and after "in writing" in subdivision (a); and added subdivision (b). Stats. 2010, Ch. 717 (SB 853), in effect October 19, 2010, deleted former subdivision (b) which provided that "This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2011, and as of that date is repealed." and added the new subdivision (b).

Text of section operative July 1, 2011

12423. Estimate where no return filed. (a) If an insurer or surplus line broker fails to file a return, the commissioner may require a return by mailing notice to the insurer or surplus line broker to file a return by a specified date or he or she may without requiring a return, or upon no return having been filed pursuant to the demand therefor, make an estimate of the amount of tax due for the calendar year or years in respect to which the insurer or surplus line broker failed to file the return. The estimate shall be made from any available information which is in the commissioner's possession or may come into his or her possession, and the commissioner shall propose, in writing, to the board a deficiency assessment for the amount of the estimated tax. The proposal shall set forth the basis of the estimate and the details of the computation of the tax.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2011.

History.—Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 157 (AB 1422), in effect September 22, 2009, but operative January 1, 2011. Stats. 2010, Ch. 717 (SB 853), in effect October 19, 2010, substituted "July 1, 2011" for "January 1, 2011" after "operative on" in subdivision (c).

* Stats. 1961, p. 1984, operative January 1, 1962, amended the title of Chapter 4 by substituting "Effect of Tax" for "Levy".