Confusing Tax Law Impacting Camp Fire Survivors Corrected Years Later

CBS Bay Area

January 9, 2025

When the physical destruction of the Southern California fires finally ends, victims of the disaster will then have to navigate a frustrating government bureaucracy in their recovery effort.

One example of that kind of red tape is an incomprehensible tax law the survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise have been dealing with for years that IRS officials only recently were able to correct.

Kim Hurst was just starting work at about 7:15 a.m. the morning of November 8th, 2018, when she saw smoke in the distance barreling towards Paradise as it turned from white to red to black.

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