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An act to amend Sections 11932 and 11933 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1888, Ting. Documentary transfer tax: document for recordation: amount of tax due shown on separate paper.

The Documentary Transfer Tax Act authorizes the board of supervisors of a county or city and county to impose a tax with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. The act requires the amount of tax due and the location of the property to show on the face of the document, and if the party submitting the document for recordation requests, that the amount of tax due be shown on a separate paper affixed to the document. The act prohibits the recorder from recording any deed, instrument, or writing subject to the tax, unless paid at the time of recording, and requires a signed declaration of the amount of tax due on the face of the document or on a separate paper as provided by the act.

This bill would delete the requirement that, upon request, the amount of tax due be shown on a separate paper affixed to the document, and would make a conforming change to the signed declaration requirement.

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

SECTION 1.  

Section 11932 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended to read:

11932.  

If a county has imposed a tax pursuant to this part, every document subject to tax that is submitted for recordation shall show on the face of the document the amount of tax due and the incorporated or unincorporated location of the lands, tenements, or other realty described in the document.

SEC. 2.  

Section 11933 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended to read:

11933.  

If a county has imposed a tax pursuant to this part, the recorder shall not record any deed, instrument, or writing subject to the tax imposed pursuant to this part, unless the tax is paid at the time of recording. A declaration of the amount of tax due, signed by the party determining the tax or his or her agent, shall appear on the face of the document in compliance with Section 11932, and the recorder may rely on that declaration if the recorder has no reason to believe that the full amount of the tax due has not been paid. The declaration shall include a statement that the consideration or value on which the tax due was computed either was, or was not, exclusive of the value of a lien or encumbrance remaining on the interest or property conveyed at the time of sale. Failure to collect the tax due shall not affect the constructive notice otherwise imparted by recording a deed, instrument, or writing.

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