State extends tax deadline for Tuolumne, Calaveras counties

California has extended the state tax filing and payment deadline to Oct. 16 for residents and businesses in counties impacted by severe storms earlier this winter, including Tuolumne and Calaveras.

The extension was announced Thursday in a news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom, about a week after the Internal Revenue Service announced it would do the same with the filing and payment deadline for federal taxes.

That means people who live in or have businesses in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, as well as dozens of others that have been declared as disaster areas due to the winter storms in December and January, will not have to file or pay both their state and federal taxes until on or before Oct. 16

“As communities across the state continue recovering from the damage caused by the winter storms, California is working swiftly to help recovering Californians get back on their feet,” Newsom stated in the release on Thursday. “The state is aligning with the Biden Administration and extending the tax filing deadline in addition to the tax relief announced earlier this year.”

This relief applies to deadlines falling on or after Jan. 8 and before Oct. 16, including the 2022 individual income tax returns due on April 18 and the quarterly estimated tax payments, typically due on Jan. 17 and April 18. Those payments were previously extended to May 15 for those impacted by winter storms.

The IRS extended the deadline to Oct. 16 for the 44 counties that were included in President Joe Biden’s emergency declaration for the series of deadly atmospheric river storms that devastated large swaths of the state in December and January.

Newsom’s news release also provided the following information about how California taxpayers affected by a presiden

tially declared disaster may claim a deduction for a disaster loss when filing either an original or amended tax year 2022 tax return:

Taxpayers should write the name of the disaster in blue or black ink at the top of their tax return to alert the state Franchise Tax Board. If filing electronically, they should follow the software instructions to enter disaster information.

If a taxpayer receives a late filing or payment penalty notice related to the postponement period, they should call the number on the notice to have the penalty waived.