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Modification: Gajanan v. City and County of San Francisco

Ruling by

Marla J. Miller

Lower Court

San Francisco County Superior Court

Lower Court Judge

Gail Dekreon
Hotel owners and management company met burden of showing "ordinary care" regarding payment of taxes when they hired and relied on controller's false statements and accounting.



Court

California Courts of Appeal 1DCA/2

Cite as

2022 DJDAR 4207

Published

Apr. 28, 2022

Filing Date

Apr. 26, 2022

Opinion Type

Modification

Disposition Type

Affirmed

Case Fully Briefed

May 20, 2021

Oral Argument

Mar. 23, 2022


GAJANAN, INC., et al.,

Plaintiffs and Respondents,

v.

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

 

No. A160539

(San Francisco County

Super. Ct. No. CGC16554309
[consolidated with
CGC16550351, CGC16550354,
CGC16554304])

California Court of Appeal

First Appellate District

Division Two

Filed April 26, 2022

 

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION

 

 

BY THE COURT:

 

It is ordered that the opinion filed herein on March 30, 2022 and certified for publication on April 22, 2022, be modified as follows:

Replace the first sentence in footnote 21 on page 22 with the following text:

"In the trial court, the City argued that when a taxpayer files a return after a Notice of Determination is issued, the City is authorized to apply the penalty in section 6.17-1, subdivision (a) "in addition to" the penalty in section 6.11-3, subdivision (a), but the City elects to limit the penalties imposed to those in section 6.11-3, subdivision (a)."

This modification does not change the judgment.

 

Richman, Acting P.J.

 

 

Court:

San Francisco County Superior Court

 

Trial Judge:

Hon. Gail Dekreon

 

Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Scott M. Reiber, Chief Tax Attorney, Thomas S. Lakritz, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants

 

Silverstein & Pomerantz, Amy L. Silverstein, Robert Petraglia, John Ormonde, Adam Hooberman, for Plaintiffs and Respondents

 

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