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- @034 CHAP 11
- @CODE: CA
- @CODE: NF
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL FEE ON CORPORATIONS │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- If your incorporated business has 50 or more employees and
- is considered to be in an industry that uses, generates, or
- stores hazardous materials in California, it must file an
- environmental fee return and pay an annual environmental
- fee based on its number of employees, as follows:
-
- NUMBER OF ENVIRONMENTAL
- EMPLOYEES FEE
- --------- -------------
- 1-49 $ 0
- 50-74 100
- 75-99 300
- 100-249 500
- 250-499 750
- 500 or more 1,000
-
- While you might not think your business has anything to do
- with hazardous materials, the state aggressively interprets
- this law to apply to ALL corporations with 50 or more em-
- ployees. Because of the state's extreme interpretation of
- the law, you may want to pay the fee and file for a refund
- at some point in the future, if you think your corporation
- does not "use, generate, or store" hazardous materials. It
- seems likely that the state's position will be challenged
- in the courts, which might permit you a refund if you have
- filed for it before the statute of limitations has expired.
-
- @IF000CA]You have no employees, so the environmental fee is not appli-
- @IF000CA]cable to your firm, whether or not you are incorporated.
- @IF001CA]You have only one employee, so this environmental fee is not
- @IF001CA]applicable to your firm, whether or not you are incorporated.
- @IF049CA]Your business has only @EMP employees, so that the environ-
- @IF049CA]mental fee isn't applicable to your firm, whether or not you
- @IF049CA]are incorporated.
- @IF050CA]Your business has @EMP employees, so that the environmental
- @IF050CA]fee is applicable if you are an incorporated business.
-
- @IF120CA](@NAME is not incorporated.)
- @IF121CA](@NAME is incorporated.)
-
-