AB 2979: Income taxation: exclusion: victim compensation.

The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines gross income as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability.

Existing law generally provides for the reimbursement of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes.

This bill would exclude from gross income any payment received from the California Victim Compensation Board pursuant to specified law.

This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.