Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1311.
This part is known and may be cited as the “Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law.”
California Revenue and Taxation Code — §§ 7200-7213
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1311.
This part is known and may be cited as the “Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law.”
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1311.
Any county may by action of its board of supervisors adopt a sales and use tax in accordance with the provisions of this part.
Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, 5th Ex. Sess., Ch. 2, Sec. 4.16. Effective December 12, 2003. Operative March 3, 2004, pursuant to Sec. 8 of Ch. 2.
The sales tax portion of any sales and use tax ordinance adopted under this part shall be imposed for the privilege of selling tangible personal property at retail, and shall include provisions in substance as follows:
the county sales and use tax ordinances with the State Board of Equalization to perform all functions incident to the administration or operation of the sales and use tax ordinance of the county. Any such contract shall contain a provision that the county agrees to comply with the provisions of Article 11 (commencing with Section 29530) of Chapter 2 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the Government Code.
subject to tax shall not include the amount of any sales tax or use tax imposed by the State of California upon a retailer or consumer.
that ordinance the amount of sales and use tax due to any city in the county; provided that the city sales and use tax is levied under an ordinance including provisions in substance as follows:
that of the state (but the name of the city shall not be substituted for the word “state” in the phrase “retailer engaged in business in this state” in Section 6203 nor in the definition of that phrase in Section 6203) and that an additional seller’s permit shall not be required if one has been or is issued to the seller under Section 6067.
shall continue in effect so long as the county within which the city is located has an operative sales and use tax ordinance enacted pursuant to this part.
operators of aircraft to be used or consumed principally outside the city in which the sale is made and directly and exclusively in the use of the aircraft as common carriers of persons or property under the authority of the laws of this state, the United States, or any foreign government.
Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 905, Sec. 3. Effective September 25, 1992. Operative January 1, 1993, by Sec. 8 of Ch. 905.
In addition to the provisions set forth in paragraphs (1) to (8), inclusive, of subdivision (h) of Section 7202, a city, county, or city and county sales and use tax ordinance may provide that any person subject to a sales and use tax under the city's, county's, or city and county’s ordinance shall be entitled to credit against the payment of taxes due under that ordinance the amount of sales and use taxes due to the redevelopment agency pursuant to Section 7202.6.
Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 951, Sec. 4.
Any pledge of taxes pursuant to Section 33641 of the Health and Safety Code made with respect to taxes imposed under Section 7202.6 to the payment of principal and interest on bonds of a redevelopment agency shall constitute the obligation of a contract between the redevelopment agency and the holder of the bonds and shall be protected from impairment by the United States and California Constitutions. The provisions of Section 7202.6 which authorize the imposition of the taxes may not be repealed during the time that any of the bonds remain outstanding.
Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, 5th Ex. Sess., Ch. 2, Sec. 4.18. Effective December 12, 2003. Operative March 3, 2004, pursuant to Sec. 8 of Ch. 2.
The use tax portion of any sales and use tax ordinance adopted under this part shall impose a complementary tax upon the storage, use or other consumption in the county of tangible personal property purchased from any retailer for storage, use or other consumption in the county. That tax shall be at the rate of 11/4percent of the sales price of the property whose storage, use or other consumption is subject to the tax and shall
include:
property, the gross receipts from the sale of which has been subject to sales tax under a sales and use tax ordinance enacted in accordance with this part by any city and county, county, or city in this state, shall be exempt from the tax due under this ordinance.
pursuant to the laws of this state, the United States or any foreign government is exempt from 80 percent of the use tax, and on and after July 1, 2004, until the rate modifications in subdivision (a) of Section 7203.1 cease to apply, exempt from 75 percent of the use tax.
Amended (as amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 211) by Stats. 2004, Ch. 610, Sec. 10. Effective September 20, 2004. Note: The revenue period specified in subds. (a) and (b) ended on Jan. 1, 2016, pursuant to issuance of the notification described in subd. (b) of GOV Section 99006.
county, 1 percent.
Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 591, Sec. 8.
The sales and use tax ordinance of a county, city, city and county, or redevelopment agency adopted pursuant to this part, shall be deemed to adopt by reference the provisions of Sections 7202 to 7203, inclusive, as now in effect or as later amended, which are required to be included in the ordinance, regardless of whether or not the ordinance was adopted or amended, prior to or after the effective date of this section.
Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 951, Sec. 6.
All sales and use taxes collected by the State Board of Equalization pursuant to contract with any city, city and county, redevelopment agency, or county shall be transmitted by the board to such city, city and county, redevelopment agency, or county periodically as promptly as feasible. The transmittals required under this section shall be made at least twice in each calendar quarter.
Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 391, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006. Operative January 1, 2008, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 391.
meets both of the following conditions:
(A) One-half to the county or city and county in which the point of delivery to the aircraft is located, less the amount transmitted to a city pursuant to
subparagraph (B), if any; and one-half to the county or city and county that owns or operates the airport or to the county in which the city that owns or operates the airport is located, less the amount transmitted to a city pursuant to subparagraph (C), if any.
(B) If the multijurisdictional airport is located in a city imposing a local sales tax pursuant to an ordinance adopted pursuant to this part, the board shall transmit to that city that amount of sales taxes collected by the board with respect to retail sales of fuel described in subdivision (a) that is based on 50 percent of the rate set by that city’s ordinance.
(C) If the multijurisdictional airport is owned or operated by a city imposing a local sales tax pursuant to an ordinance adopted pursuant to this part, the board shall transmit to that city that amount of sales taxes collected by the board with respect to retail
sales of fuel described in subdivision (a) that is based on 50 percent of the rate set by that city’s ordinance.
taxes collected by the board pursuant to this part with respect to those sales in accordance with both of the following:
(ii) All of the sales taxes that are derived from a local sales tax rate imposed by the County of San Bernardino shall be allocated to that county.
Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 802, Sec. 4. Effective September 22, 1992.
quarterly taxes in order to pay the local agency’s share of a sales and use tax refund due to one taxpayer.
transmit to the local agency the offset portion as part of the board’s periodic transmittal of sales and use taxes.
agency as a result of the California Court of Appeal decision in Aerospace Corporation v. State Board of Equalization, 218 Cal. App. 3d 1300, may, at the discretion of the local agency, be made pursuant to the following provisions:
any local agency required to make those refunds will do so on the basis of aggregate claims rather than individual claims.
continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years for the payment of refunds required by this paragraph. The fund may borrow moneys utilizing any financing vehicle deemed appropriate by the Treasurer, at the pooled money investment rate, in order to pay the refunds required by this paragraph. These refund payments shall be repaid to the Local Sales Tax Offset Fund by local agencies, with interest at the pooled money investment rate, not to exceed the rate paid by the state on funds borrowed by the Local Sales Tax Offset Fund for purposes of making the required refunds. Repayment of each local agency’s share of the refund amount shall be made by local agencies through equal quarterly deductions from each local agency’s sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes prior to the transmittal of those taxes to those local agencies over the succeeding 10 years.
Aerospace Corporation case in any of the following manners:
A local agency shall notify the State Board of Equalization of the manner in which the local agency intends to fulfill its refund obligation.
Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 802, Sec. 5. Effective September 22, 1992.
the government of the United States, and the aerospace contractors affected by the court’s decision in Aerospace Corporation v. State Board of Equalization shall cease to incur any further costs associated with the audit of claims for sales tax refunds, and the repayment of the sales tax refund by local agencies shall be made on or after July 1, 1993, through deductions in sales and use tax transmittals to cities and counties pursuant to a method to be determined as specified in subdivisions (b) and (c), respectively, or pursuant to the formula determined by the board as specified in subdivision (e).
force shall be responsible for establishing a method for the distribution of the sales tax refund liability among cities in the state arising from the court decision in Aerospace Corporation v. State Board of Equalization, 218 Cal. App. 3d 1300.
in subdivision (e) to govern the distribution of deductions of sales and use tax transmittals among cities effective July 1, 1993.
refund liability among counties associated with the Aerospace Corporation case.
court decision.
A = A1(X*L)
B = B1[(X*L)]*Y1
C = C1[(X*L)]*Y2
D = D1[(X*L)]*Y3
A = A1(X*M)*L
B = B1[(X*M)*L]*Y1
C = C1[(X*M)*L]*Y2
D = D1[(X*M)*L]*Y3
it purchases that property without payment of tax and reported use tax on a self-accrual basis, in which case the entity where the self-accrued use tax was reported would be allocated the deduction from its sales and use tax transmittals equal to the refund required by this decision.
A = Amount of local tax allocated to the jurisdiction of the contractor’s actual business location.
B = Amount of local tax allocated to the city, county, or city and county within the same county of the contractor’s business location.
C = Amount of local tax allocated to the city, county, or city and county adjoining the county of the
contractor’s actual business location (adjoining counties share a common border with the county of the contractor’s actual business location).
D = Amount of local tax allocated to the city, county, or city and county in all other counties, excluding amounts allocated to A, B, and C above.
A1 = Percentage of tax overpaid by contractor at business location established pursuant to an analysis of completed Aerospace claims for refund.
B1 = Percentage of tax overpaid by contractor in the county of the business location, excluding A above, established pursuant to an analysis of completed Aerospace claims for refund.
C1 = Percentage of tax
overpaid by contractor in adjoining counties of the business location established pursuant to an analysis of completed Aerospace claims for refund.
D1 = Percentage of tax overpaid by contractor in all other counties, excluding B1 and C1 above, established pursuant to an analysis of completed Aerospace claims for refund.
X = Pro rata share of tax plus interest overpaid by contractors based on the agreed-to total refund to the government of the United States. Contractor’s pro rata share shall be computed as follows:
X = The quotient of the contractor’s computed refund divided by the total computed refund (actual and estimated), multiplied by the settlement amount.
L = Local tax rate factor established pursuant to an analysis of tax rates in effect during the period of the contractor’s claim for refund.
Y1 = Percentage of local tax allocated to the city, county, or city and county within the county of the contractor’s business location, excluding A above, during the period of the claim for refund established pursuant to an analysis of the board’s annual reports.
Y2 = Percentage of local tax allocated to the city, county, or city and county in adjoining counties of the contractor’s business location during the period of the claim for refund as established pursuant to an analysis of the board’s annual reports.
Y3 = Percentage of local tax
allocated to city, county, or city and county in all other counties, excluding Y1 and Y2 above, of the contractor’s business location during the period of the claim for refund as established pursuant to an analysis of the board’s annual reports.
M = Percentage of tax to be allocated to each location of a contractor with multiple locations within the state as determined by an analysis of reported taxable sales during the period of the claim for refund. This shall be computed as follows:
M = The quotient of taxable sales by location divided by total taxable sales.
The following definitions govern the symbols used in this paragraph:
T = Transit tax rate factor established pursuant to an analysis of the transit tax rates in effect at contractor’s location or locations during the claim for refund period.
X = Pro rata share of tax plus interest overpaid by contractor based on the agreed-to total refund to the government of the United States. Contractor’s pro rata share shall be computed as follows:
X = The quotient of contractor’s computed overpayment divided by the total overpayment (actual and estimated), multiplied by the settlement amount.
Amended by Stats. 2009, 4th Ex. Sess., Ch. 12, Sec. 30. Effective July 28, 2009.
The board shall charge a city, city and county, redevelopment agency, or county an amount for the board’s services in administering the sales and use tax ordinance of the local entity, as determined by the board with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, as follows:
to the Supplemental Report of the 2004 Budget Act.”
collected by the board for the city, city and county, redevelopment agency, or county.
Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 579, Sec. 33.
The Director of Transportation and the Controller shall charge for the cost of their services in administering the responsibilities assigned to them in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 99200) of Part 11 of Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code. Amounts to be charged shall be specified in the Budget Act. Those amounts shall be deducted from the taxes collected by the board for the counties and the cities and counties.
Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 391, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006. Operative January 1, 2008, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 391.
delivery is made.
Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 775, Sec. 42. Effective January 1, 2003.
Vehicle Code), or a leasing company, the place of use of the leased vehicle shall be deemed to be the city in which the lessor’s place of business (as defined in Section 7205 and the regulations promulgated thereunder) is located.
passenger vehicle (other than a house car) or pickup truck rated less than one ton.
(ii) For purposes of this subparagraph, only those periodic payments required by the lease shall
be considered in determining whether a lessor has annual receipts of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) or more. Amounts received by lessors attributable to capitalized cost reductions or amounts paid by a lessee upon his or her exercising an option shall not be considered in determining whether a lessor has annual lease receipts of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) or more.
Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1311.
Nothing in this part shall require or be construed to require any city, county, or city and county, to impose any sales or use taxes or to increase any sales or use taxes.
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1785.
The board may redistribute tax, penalty and interest distributed to a county or city other than the county or city entitled thereto but such redistribution shall not be made as to amounts originally distributed earlier than two quarterly periods prior to the quarterly period in which the board obtains knowledge of the improper distribution.
Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 541, Sec. 7. Effective September 17, 1981.
Notwithstanding Section 7203.5, the State Board of Equalization shall continue to administer the sales and use tax ordinance of any city, county, or city and county which adopts an ordinance imposing a tax on the sale, storage, use, or consumption of motor vehicle fuel pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 99500), Part 11, Division 10 of the Public Utilities Code or Part 4 (commencing with Section 9501) of this division.
Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 342, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2008.
Notwithstanding Section 7203.5, the State Board of Equalization shall continue to administer the sales and use tax ordinance of any city, county, or city and county that adopts a transactions and use tax ordinance administered by the board in accordance with Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251).
Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 951, Sec. 8.
Any redevelopment agency adopting a sales and use tax ordinance pursuant to Section 7202.6 shall pay to the board its costs of preparation to administer and operate the sales and use tax ordinance. The agency shall pay such costs monthly as incurred and billed by the board. The costs include all preparatory costs, including costs of developing procedures, programming for data processing, developing and adopting appropriate regulations, designing and printing of forms, developing instructions for the board’s staff and for taxpayers, and other necessary preparatory costs which shall include the board’s direct and
indirect costs as specified by Section 11256 of the Government Code. Any disputes as to the amount of preparatory costs incurred shall be resolved by the Director of Finance, and his decision shall be final. The maximum amount of all preparatory costs to be paid by the district shall not, in any event, exceed five hundred seventy thousand dollars ($570,000). If for any reason the ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 7202.6 is declared to be invalid, the board shall not be required to refund any or all revenues collected pursuant to that ordinance, but rather those revenues shall be distributed to the city within which the redevelopment agency operates.
Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 842, Sec. 1. (AB 2854) Effective January 1, 2025.
pursuant to subdivision (d).
information:
that it has 45 days from the mailing of the notice to provide or publish the required information or submit a statement to the department, in the form and manner prescribed by the department, explaining why it is unable to provide or publish the
required information within the 45-day period.
(ii) (I) If a local agency provides a statement pursuant to clause (i), the department may extend
the 45-day period to provide or publish the required information by 30 days if the local agency demonstrates that the failure to timely comply with the applicable requirement was due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the local agency’s control, occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care, and occurred in the absence of willful neglect. The department shall not grant an extension for a local agency based on the local agency’s claim that the information is confidential.
(II) If the department grants an extension pursuant to subclause (I), the department
shall notify the local agency by certified mail that it has 30 days to provide or publish the required information commencing on the next business day following the expiration of the 45-day period provided in clause (i).
(III) If the department declines to grant an extension pursuant to subclause (I), the local agency shall provide or publish the required information within 10 days
after the
department notifies the local agency by certified mail that it has denied the extension.
(iii) The notice shall be addressed to the person authorized to receive confidential data at the local agency’s address as it appears in the department’s records. The mailing of the notice shall be deemed complete at the time of the deposit of the notice in the United States Post Office, or a mailbox, sub-post office, substation or mail chute, or other facility regularly maintained or provided by the United States Postal Service, without extension of time for any reason.
(B) If a local agency fails to provide or publish the information
within the applicable period determined pursuant to subparagraph (A), the department may impose a penalty
for each day after expiration of the applicable period the local agency fails to provide or publish the information, up to 365 days after the expiration of the applicable period, as follows:
(ii) For days 181 to 365, inclusive, four thousand dollars ($4,000) per day.
and costs of administration, shall be deposited into the General Fund.
subdivision (d).
and safety, and general welfare. Notwithstanding any other law, the emergency regulations adopted by the department may remain in effect for two years from adoption and may be readopted in accordance with subdivision (h) of Section 11346.1 of the Government Code.