Cal. RTC § 96.2
This is the official text of Cal. RTC § 96.2, part of California’s Revenue and Taxation Code — governs state and local taxation, including income and property tax.
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Official statutory text
Except as otherwise provided in Section 96.21 or 96.22, for the purpose of apportioning property tax revenues each fiscal year:
(a) The amount of property tax revenue allocated pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 96 or subdivision (a) of Section 96.1, modified by any adjustments made pursuant to Section 99 or 99.2 and subdivision (e) of Section 96.5, shall be combined to compute the total amount of property tax revenue allocated to the jurisdiction with respect to the tax rate area.
(b) The total amount of property tax revenue allocated to each jurisdiction with respect to all tax rate areas as determined pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be added to compute a total amount of property tax revenue for a jurisdiction in all tax rate areas.
(c) Each amount determined pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be divided by the total of all those amounts computed. The quotient determined shall be used to apportion actual property tax collections and shall be known as the “property tax apportionment factors.”
(d) For the 1980–81 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, prior years’ property tax revenues shall be apportioned using the factors determined pursuant to subdivision (c) for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(e) Notwithstanding this section, property tax revenues may be apportioned by tax rate area.
(a) The amount of property tax revenue allocated pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 96 or subdivision (a) of Section 96.1, modified by any adjustments made pursuant to Section 99 or 99.2 and subdivision (e) of Section 96.5, shall be combined to compute the total amount of property tax revenue allocated to the jurisdiction with respect to the tax rate area.
(b) The total amount of property tax revenue allocated to each jurisdiction with respect to all tax rate areas as determined pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be added to compute a total amount of property tax revenue for a jurisdiction in all tax rate areas.
(c) Each amount determined pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be divided by the total of all those amounts computed. The quotient determined shall be used to apportion actual property tax collections and shall be known as the “property tax apportionment factors.”
(d) For the 1980–81 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, prior years’ property tax revenues shall be apportioned using the factors determined pursuant to subdivision (c) for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(e) Notwithstanding this section, property tax revenues may be apportioned by tax rate area.
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