California Revenue and Taxation Code ARTICLE 2 - The California Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights

• Section 50156.
  The board shall administer this article. Unless the context indicates otherwise, the provisions of this article shall apply to this part.(Added by Stats. 1992, Ch....
• Section 50156.1.
  (a) The board shall establish the position of the Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate. The advocate or his or her designee shall be responsible for facilitating resolution of...
• Section 50156.2.
  (a) The board shall develop and implement an education and information program directed at, but not limited to, all of the following groups:(1) Fee payers newly registered...
• Section 50156.3.
  The board shall conduct an annual hearing before the full board where industry representatives and individual fee payers are allowed to present their proposals on...
• Section 50156.4.
  The board shall prepare and publish brief but comprehensive statements in simple and nontechnical language that explain procedures, remedies, and the rights and obligations of...
• Section 50156.5.
  (a) The total amount of revenue collected or assessed pursuant to this part shall not be used for any of the following:(1) To evaluate individual officers or...
• Section 50156.6.
  The board shall develop and implement a program that will evaluate an individual employee’s or officer’s performance with respect to his or her contact with...
• Section 50156.7.
  The board shall, in cooperation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate, and other interested taxpayer-oriented groups, develop a plan to...
• Section 50156.8.
  Procedures of the board, relating to appeals staff review conferences before a staff attorney or supervising tax auditor independent of the assessing department, shall include...
• Section 50156.9.
  (a) Every fee payer is entitled to be reimbursed for any reasonable fees and expenses related to a hearing before the board if all of the...
• Section 50156.10.a.
  (a) An officer or employee of the board acting in connection with any law administered by the board shall not knowingly authorize, require, or conduct any...
• Section 50156.11.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Board of Equalization, its staff, and the Attorney General pursue settlements as authorized under this...
• Section 50156.12.
  (a) The board shall release any levy or notice to withhold issued pursuant to this part on any property in the event that the expense of...
• Section 50156.13.
  Exemptions from levy under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 703.010) of Division 2 of Title 9 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure...
• Section 50156.14.
  (a) A feepayer may file a claim with the board for reimbursement of bank charges and any other reasonable third-party check charge fees incurred by the...
• Section 50156.15.
  (a) At least 30 days prior to the filing or recording of liens under Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 7150) or Chapter 14.5 (commencing with Section...
• Section 50156.16.
  (a) If any officer or employee of the board recklessly disregards board-published procedures, a fee payer aggrieved by that action or omission may bring an action...
• Section 50156.17.
  (a) Except in any case where the board finds collection of the fee to be in jeopardy, if any property has been levied upon, the property...
• Section 50156.18.
  (a) (1) Beginning January 1, 2003, the executive director and chief counsel of the board, or their delegates, may compromise any final fee liability in which the...
• Section 50156.18.a.
  (a) (1) The executive director and chief counsel of the board, or their delegates, may compromise any final fee liability in which the reduction of the fee...

Last modified: October 22, 2018