California SB 1473: Taxation: taxpayers' bill of rights: taxpayer representation.

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 SB-1473 Taxation: taxpayers’ bill of rights: taxpayer representation. (2017-2018)

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 Date Published: 02/16/2018 09:00 PM

SB1473:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1473

Introduced by Senator Morrell

February 16, 2018

 An act to add Section 21029 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1473, as introduced, Morrell.
 Taxation: taxpayers’ bill of rights: taxpayer representation. 

The Katz-Harris Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights Act ensures that the Franchise Tax Board conducts its operations of tax assessment and tax collection in a manner that ensures the privacy and property rights of California’s taxpayers. The act establishes the position of Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate and provides specified protections for taxpayers for purposes of, among other things, determining their correct tax liability.

This bill would provide that if a taxpayer is represented by a federally authorized tax practitioner, as defined, and the taxpayer has authorized the federally authorized tax practitioner to represent the taxpayer pursuant to an executed power of attorney form, duly submitted to the appropriate California taxation authority, then an agent from a California taxing authority is prohibited from contacting the taxpayer without the federally
 authorized tax practitioner’s knowledge and is required to send a copy of all correspondence sent to the taxpayer to the federally authorized tax practitioner. The bill would further require that a violation of this right to representation result in the removal of the taxpayer’s case to a new and impartial agent who would be prohibited from considering any information that was improperly obtained by the agent who was replaced.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 21029 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:

21029.

 (a) (1) If a taxpayer is represented by a federally authorized tax practitioner and the taxpayer has authorized the federally authorized tax practitioner to represent the taxpayer pursuant to an executed power of attorney form, duly submitted to the appropriate California taxation authority, then an agent from a California taxing authority shall not contact the taxpayer without the federally authorized tax practitioner’s knowledge and shall send a copy of all correspondence sent to the taxpayer to the federally authorized tax practitioner.

(2) Violation of this right to representation shall result in the removal of the taxpayer’s case to a new and impartial agent who shall not consider any information that was improperly
 obtained by the agent who was replaced.

(b) For purposes of this section:

(1) “Federally authorized tax practitioner” shall have the same meaning as in Section 21028.

(2) An executed power of attorney form includes FTB Form 3520, DE 48, or other equivalent form.