2024 Precedential Business Tax Opinions

Decisions Month Year Cite Decision Type Issues
F. Landeros, dba Landeros FurnitureDecember20242024-OTA-655PPrecedentialOTA jurisdiction (constitutional rights); payment of criminal restitution not satisfy civil liability; laches inapplicable; unreported taxable sales (furniture store); 25 percent (fraud) penalty (R&TC 6485)
Specialized Orthopedic Solutions, Inc. dba SOS MedicalOctober20242024-OTA-463PPrecedentialDefinition of medicines; definition of orthotic device (R&TC 6369; Reg. 1591); weight afforded to Sales and Use Tax Annotations
Ajay Beri CorporationSeptember20242024-OTA-385PPrecedentialWhether OTA is prohibited from granting refund of criminal restitution proceeds (R&TC 7157); statute of limitations for CDTFA to issue NOD (R&TC 6487); unreported taxable sales (Subway franchises); whether court-ordered criminal restitution payments bar CDTFA from issuing NODs for period in plea agreement; weight to give evidence (plea of guilty to felony tax evasion).
M. Riedel - PFR OpinionJanuary20242024-OTA-004PPrecedentialStandard for granting petition for rehearing (insufficient evidence, contrary to law); application of payments.