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Changes to real estate withholding and exemptions.


Assembly Bill 1338 changes California's real estate withholding Withholding

Any tax that is taken directly out of an individual's wages or other income before he or she receives the funds.

Notes:
In other words, these funds are "withheld" from your wages.
 requirements and exemptions effective for all transactions closing on or after Jan. 1, 2005.

Among other changes, the waiver The voluntary surrender of a known right; conduct supporting an inference that a particular right has been relinquished.

The term waiver is used in many legal contexts.
 process for non-individuals is replaced with a self-certification self-certification
Noun

(in Britain) the completion of a form by a worker stating that his or her absence was due to sickness
 process and the exception for the sale of a principal residence expands to include sellers whose "last use" of the property sold was their principal residence, even if they do not meet the "two out of the last five years" requirement or one of the special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. .

Also, the exemption for the sale of a principal residence is expanded to include sales by estates when the property was the decedent's principal residence.

For more, visit www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/wsc/comp_chart.pdf.
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Date:Dec 1, 2004
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