The Franchise Tax Board announced today that disaster relief is available to impacted taxpayers. Taxpayers who are amending their returns should write “Southern California Wildfires 2008” in red ink on the top of their return so that it is expedited. Impacted taxpayers can also get free copies of returns that were lost by filing Form 3516. Again, such taxpayers should write “Southern California Wildfires 2008” in red ink on the top of the form so that their request is correctly processed.
The Southern California fires involved are the Tea Fire in Santa Barbara County, the Sayre Fire in northern Los Angeles County, and the Freeway/Triangle Complex fire in Orange and Riverside Counties.