(a) The tax imposed on insurers by this chapter is in lieu of all other taxes and licenses, state, county, and municipal, upon those insurers and their property, except:

(1) Taxes upon their real estate.

Terms Used In California Revenue and Taxation Code 12204

  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 15

(2) Any retaliatory exactions imposed by paragraph (3) of subdivision (f) of § 28 of Article XIII of the California Constitution.

(3) The tax on ocean marine insurance.

(4) Motor vehicle and other vehicle registration license fees and any other tax or license fee imposed by the state upon vehicles, motor vehicles, or the operation thereof.

(5) That each corporate or other attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange shall be subject to all taxes imposed upon corporations or others doing business in the state, other than taxes on income derived from its principal business as attorney-in-fact.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2013.

(Repealed (in Sec. 7) and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 33, Sec. 8. (SB 78) Effective June 27, 2013. Section operative July 1, 2013, by its own provisions.)