ZC REAL ESTATE TAX SOLUTIONS LTD. v. FORD

No. F059443.

191 Cal.App.4th 378 (2010)

ZC REAL ESTATE TAX SOLUTIONS LIMITED, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. GORDON B. FORD, as County Treasurer, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

December 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayall, Hurley, Knutsen, Smith & Green, Jeffrey B. Setness and Robert Wasserman for Plaintiff and Appellant.

John P. Doering , County Counsel, and Deirdre E. McGrath , Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

Andrea Sheridan Ordin , County Counsel (Los Angeles), and Richard Girgado , Deputy County Counsel, for Mark J. Saladino, Treasurer-Tax Collector for the County of Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

DETJEN, J.

Revenue and Taxation Code section 4985.2, subdivision (a), provides that a penalty resulting from failure to make a timely real estate tax payment may be canceled if the failure "is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the taxpayer's control, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care in the absence of willful neglect, provided the principal payment for the proper amount of the tax due...

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