The wildfire disasters in Los Angeles County prompted the Franchise Tax Board to push the state’s tax filing deadline to Oct.

Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. California’s FTB generally conforms to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) postponement periods for presidentially declared disasters.

The IRS will begin processing tax returns by around the end of January, but you can file even sooner to ensure your refund check is among the first to get processed by the Internal Revenue Service ...