I have caught California's Income Tax Collection Agency, The Franchise Tax Board, in two different racketeering schemes. I tried to get the illegal activity stopped by contacting legislators. I even made a speech to Legislators in both 2018 and 2019: https://vimeo.com/user93891576. The Legislators response was F*** you: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=196. So now I have filed a lawsuit: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?attachment_id=214
TLDR of the schemes:
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The FTB is illegally putting estimated tax payments into a general slush fund instead of into your account. The money isn’t put into your account until you file your return for that year; basically, the State of CA is temporarily embezzling your money. If you file late, they harass you for payments that would not be owed/impose penalties that would not have been assessed had the money been applied to your account in accordance with the law.
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The FTB “accidentally” misapplies money to previous years and sends you a refund, leaving the current year underfunded. Like the withholding scheme, if you file your returns late, penalties are falsely imposed. Where it gets suspicious is that it takes months to send the refunds. The refunds are difficult to identify – you just get a check in the mail from the State of CA with no letter. The refunds have interest added or are broken up into multiple years (issuing a separate check for each year), so you don’t immediately identify that this mystery money may be a refunded tax payment. The FTB has an unusually difficult time locating these particular “lost” payments, taking months or even years to locate. Once located, they will accept another payment from you and retroactively apply it to your account for the date that the original payment was made, thus correcting the underfunding problem. But it takes them months to apply the money. And the accounting ledgers tied to these “misapplied” payments are inaccurate, with missing line items and incorrect dates.
More details can be found on my website: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/
I have uploaded lots of evidence that I submitted to the court, including proof that the FTB overcharged me interest and that their accounting ledgers are inaccurate. The crazy thing is that I still have a ton more to upload! https://gwsandiego.net/blog/
Please spread the word. This is a non-partisan issue, so people on both sides should be open to hearing about it. Hopefully, exposing the corruption in the Democratic Party will help break California's Democrat stronghold in November.
This pede fucks
Dude watch one of her videos. She calls them on their BS and they totally fail probably because they have room temperature IQ's.
No, the people on that stage are smart; those are the masterminds of the assorted illegal schemes they have going (yes, there are more schemes than the ones I got snared in). At least 3 of them are lawyers. They know that they will incriminate themselves if they try to deny my allegations, so they just don't say anything at all.
Sorry, I was very impressed is all. Thank you for all your hard work from a fellow Californian here.
Thank you!!!!
Very impressed by those two videos. I’m sure you did your homework and can source all claims. Please be careful. I’m sure you know the people with whom you are dealing won’t like their money scheme being called out.
Thank you! I did upload the sources on my website: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?page_id=80
This may be a good time to mention that I am not suicidal, I am a very careful driver and I do not use drugs of any kind -- I don't even like to take aspirin!
When I lived in CA the hit me with a very large tax bill for some stock I sold. The stock was an option which means I did not own the stock until I exercised the option.
Example: Option is for $50 and stock is trading at $100. I sell and make a $50 profit and immediately pay taxes on the transaction with the trading firm.
State of CA steps in and charges me taxes based on the $100 sale and not my profit from it. Then adds penalties. I then show them proof that I paid the taxes which case they then confirm by saying they see the taxes in the system in my name and drop the case as long as I pay the penalty?
first problem is they have list of all the money you gave them.
Second they do not tell you they have this list until you provide proof.
Yes, this is spot on exactly what they do! They make the "mistake," but you are still on the hook for the penalty. You can file a request for refund with the FTB, but those are almost always denied. You can file an appeal with The OTA, but that is an actual court case. Most people won't go that far because the penalty is usually a small enough amount of money that its not worth the stress/headache. And The OTA almost aways sides with the FTB, so its really not worth the hassle knowing you'll probably lose.
From my Superior Court filing page 1:
I believe that we are due a full refund for two reasons. Firstly, because the Demand Notices issued to my husband, Eric W. Grab and I for tax years 2010 and 2013 and 2014 were improperly issued. R&TC 19087 states that the Demand Notices and accompanying Demand Penalties are only to be issued on accounts with delinquent taxes. However, at no point were we delinquent. FTB improperly withheld and misapplied our estimated tax payments, making our account falsely appear underfunded. Thus the Demand Notices and accompanying Demand Penalties for 2011, 2013 and 2014 were improperly issued/imposed. Secondly, I believe our late filing was due to reasonable cause: the delays were a direct result of FTB’s aforementioned multiple breaches of duty. As such, we are requesting a full reimbursement of all penalties and fees paid
And page 6: ...the heart of our argument: Is it legal for the Franchise Tax Board to assess penalties that resulted solely from FTB’s own breach of duties?
Room temperature in Alaska in January.
...in an abandoned igloo?
Audit CA
We should just let bad decisions, time and reality tear the state apart.
California and it's retarded residents are a fucking write off(sorry cali pedes, you should have left a long time ago)
Our biggest concern as a country is making sure that the state of California isn't bailed out by the federal government. When that shithole finally collapses they need to be on their own.
It's the big cities that dictate all the stupidity for the rest of the state. I know plenty of Californians who are sick to shit of it. Consider the by-county vote results from 2016. True that the majority of counties seem to have gone Clinton, but outside of the LA and SF areas, it's probably a bit lighter blue than you think.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/California_Presidential_Election_Results_2016.svg/800px-California_Presidential_Election_Results_2016.svg.png
There is a reason why there are multiple movements to split the state up. The people in rural areas -- which is the majority of the state by acreage -- have no voice at all because they are overshadowed by the cities. CA is the perfect example of how important the electoral college is in the US Federal System.
It's been like that for decades and California conservatives & republicans don't seem to be motivated enough to actually cause change.
Why y'all haven't left is a mystery to me, it's hard to feel bad.
What conservatives? If my place of employment finds out I’m a conservative I’ll be targeted asa bigot! I said I voted for Trump and was written up... sharing my political views at work but it was completely fine to say Obama🥵
This is so sad. :( Total discrimination and they don't see it.
I did an AMA on California_politics in November and I was viciously attacked and downvoted to oblivion because I post on T_D and T_D_CA. I wrote this to one of the "concern trolls":
"You seem like a reasonable person who is genuinely concerned, so I want to ask you a serious question. The way I was attacked for refusing to segregate myself from a particular group has me seriously disturbed. In my mind, telling me that right-winders are "others" who it is imperative that we segregate ourselves from because they are second-class citizens who deserve to be treated badly is no different than the Jim Crow mentality of the 1950s.
I know you said that right-wingers are extremists, but there are just as many extremist left-wingers out there. Look at the trans-chick who shot up You-Tube for being de-monetized and the dude who shot up the republican softball practice. If you were telling me to avoid all extremists on both sides, I wouldn't be so disturbed, but the message was clear that I needed to avoid all right-wingers because there could be extremists among them. I am sure that was the same logic back in the Jim-Crow days, too.
I genuinely am curious as to why you think telling me to segregate myself from a particular political group is different than you telling me to segregate myself from colored people or people of certain religious groups? I'm honestly not trying to pick a fight. I just want to understand your point of view better. My ultimate goal is to overcome the partisan divide to push this non-partisan issue, and if I can understand both side's point of view, maybe I can help bridge the divide and bring the two sides together."
She stopped attacking after that, but not the rest of them!
The problem is it'll hurt law abiding americans in the process. Yes, the majority voted for it, but we can't just write off or give up on millions of conservative americans. or even the stupid lefties. People can change their mind, just look at this trump movement. They just need their own great awakening. Fighting corruption should be non-partisan
Honestly, I am optimistic that this issue will bring both sides together since it is non-partisan. If we phrase it as "criminal collections practices by the state government" and not "paying more than our fair share of taxes because of Democrats," we'll be able to get some democrats to join in, especially democrats who have themselves been brutally harassed by the FTB.
And once people are in and see the details, they'll start to see the corruption and have an awakening. For example, after I started complaining about the unlawful collections practices to Governor Brown and State Controller Betty Yee, they not only did nothing to stop it, they actually chanced the way appeals are heard to ensure that you can't get your unlawfully collected fees back: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?p=6
I'm for weeding the worst of California's corruption out before it collapses. A lot of their refugees are good people, but some think that it's a good idea to vote for all the shit that trashed their state after they flee to other parts of the country.
I have a friend who is from Oregon, lived in CA for a long time, then moved to a small town in Oregon. Her husband is from Michigan, they met in CA and he was in CA as long as she was. She said the locals HATE Californians for "ruining their town," and to try to fit in better, she and her husband keep it secret that they ever lived in CA.
Invade CA
The legislators sit as corrupt, contemptuous kings. Can CA possibly be reformed from within?
I think so. Call me overly optimistic, but I view California's government as a fortress. I am hitting on the fortress wall with a sledgehammer in one spot (the FTB). While I have a long way to go, I have done a notable amount of damage to my spot. I think if 4 or 5 other people join me, we'll be able to knock down this piece of the wall.
And I know that, even though I can't see them, there are other people who are also hitting at parts of the fortress wall with sledgehammers. I really believe that it'll only take about 5 people per agency to collapse the agency, and once enough agencies go down, the whole system will go down.
God speed, Miss Christine!
Yes it can and you should... Get friends who will join you in infiltrating the CAGOP and reform it within. Start small and work on enforcing change within.
The CAGOP is in bed with the DNC you know...
I think it’s to far gone🥵 we can’t stay , we are hated by the libs and if we go we have to keep it a secret that we’re from California 🤦♀️ But it’s so far gone and everything that is wrong is right and everything that right is wrong. I saw this coming a long time ago, as a kid in school in the early 60s I could see how the teacher’s we’re beginning to indoctrinate the students, peace love cool ....
I do taxes for a family that received a little bit of income from California sources. Each year, two of their 1099s have California income withheld. And each year, we file all forms required to make sure that the withholding passes through the family LLC to the members. And each year, California repeatedly refuses to give the family members credit for their withholding. Unfortunately, the cost of fighting for those credits (multiple letters and phone calls to FTB) exceeds the value of the credits, so the clients have started just paying the bills.
They are a criminal organization, I tell you.
You are not the first person to tell me about this scheme. So far, I've only focused on the schemes that affected me personally, but soon I'd like to start calling them out on their other schemes, as well. I may contact you in the next few months for more details to try to figure out how that scheme works and which laws they are evading.
Call OANN they will help get the word out.
I have, multiple times. :(
I have contacted at least 150 journalists/news agencies over the last couple of years and none of them want to cover it. Taxes aren't a sexy enough topic.
Try local conservative talk radio, you'll probably have better luck there. I listen to one show on sunday's https://am870theanswer.com/radioshow/5565, all they talk about is the how the state of california wastes taxpayer dollars. Here is their facebook is it s helps https://www.facebook.com/RadioFreeLA/
I have tried several conservative talk radio shows, too, but I have not contacted this particular show. Thank you for the suggestion. I'll reach out to them. :)
Last year, I talked to a couple GOP people here in San Diego. They were concerned, but did nothing about it. Following up with them again now that the suit is filed is on my to-do list.
Short version of a longish story.
I buy a high-end-but-not-super-pro chainsaw.
It stalls constantly. Start, do one cut, stall. Restart, do one cut, stall.
Return it for a new one.
Same thing.
Find out that due to California laws, they have to ship the chainsaw idling too low to actually use. You have to turn a screw to make it actually work. If you turn the screw and get caught in CA, it is a massive fine. Everyone knows this, so they have inspectors regularly out to work sites to collect fines from the illegal chainsaws.
Why does this not surprise me???? Thank you for sharing! One more scheme to watch out for.
Wow is this Gangs of New York or America??
California is a nanny state -- it is shocking what they legislate.
California Tree Felling Safety Code Regulations:
(c) Felling.
(1) The work area shall be cleared to permit safe working conditions before any cutting is started.
(2) A planned escape route for all workers shall be prepared before cutting any standing tree or trunk.
(3) A notch and back cut shall be used to establish a hinge when felling trees over 5 inches in diameter.
(A) Notches and back cuts shall be made at a height that enables the chain-saw operator to safely begin the cut, control the tree or trunk, and have freedom of movement for escape.
(B) The notch cut used shall be a conventional notch, an open-faced notch, or a Humboldt notch as defined in Section 3420(b).
(C) The notch depth shall not exceed one-third of the diameter of the tree.
(D) The back cut shall not penetrate into the predetermined hinge area.
(E) With a conventional notch or Humboldt notch, the back cut shall be 1 to 2 inches above the apex of the notch to provide an adequate platform to prevent kick-back of the tree or trunk. With an open-face notch (greater than 70 degrees), the back cut shall be at the same level as the apex of the notch.
(F) The two saw cuts that form a notch shall not cross at the point where they meet.
Same here. I do the taxes of like a dozen families in my old neighborhood. People just never knew what all of it meant. Left thousands in deductions and credits lying around before I decided to learn that stuff when I noticed a big chunk of my paycheck missing.
It's absolutely criminal the shit they pull on people.
I'll be contacting you, too, for more details when I am ready to tackle more of the FTB's schemes.
Good luck pede. Government at all levels must be held accountable and CA is on the top of the heap for abuses
I am always glad to see pedes using lawfare against these kinds of injustices. We need more pedes to become their own Tom Fitton and start fighting back against social media censorship designed to illegally influence elections and other nonsense. The Covington kids showed that you can use the legal system to fight back against leftists and win.
You know what is crazy? The law librarian who specializes in tax issues has been there for 17 years and told me that I am the first person who has ever asked about filing an appeal in Superior Court.
I have a question: If the courts finds in your favor, would you only be refunded the amount to make you whole or can punitive damages be applied as well?
I filed an appeal in Superior Court of CA, so for this case, I will only get my improperly imposed penalties refunded + interest. However, I plan to also file a harassment lawsuit against them because they harassed me for years for money that was never owed. They went so far as to file a wage garnishment for $6k when they had $16,500 in hand that they refused to apply to my account.
Infuriating
I looked into a class-action suit. Unfortunately, a "class" means that each and every person was harmed in an identical way, so instead of 100 identical lawsuits, you have one where the identical thing happened 100 times. Taxes are almost never identical situations since each family's income, deductions, withholdings, estimated payments and so forth are rarely identical.
Wow. Good luck!
California is corrupt? No f-ing way
I know, shocking right????????? ;)
Ex-Calif. resident here, the Franchise Tax Board is notoriously tougher to deal with than the IRS. The IRS is a tea party compared to talking to State tax collectors. I wish you the best.
The most commonly used word to describe the FTB is "retaliatory." That tells you everything you need to know about them.
Godspeed, pede.
Bring the commies down.
Burn the FTB down!
So I have to tell you this story... a few weeks ago, someone did an astrological chart on me. I am not into astrology, but I figured it would be fun to see how accurate it was. She says.... "Anger... Wow, it takes a lot for you to get angry... like really a lot more than most people will tolerate. But once you get mad, you burn it down!" She was right! No one racketeers me, I don't care if you are the State of CA! I WILL get the racketeering schemes stopped!
I would also like to mention they sell your information to debt collectors that are pure evil!
Look up Professional credit service PCS.
The FTB is the collection agency for over 500 different government agencies in California. The fact that we have over 500 government agencies to start with is kind of shocking. Knowing that there are a lot more agencies that don't use the FTB for collections adds to the shock. But what is most disconcerting is the fact that most CA government agencies have no need for a collections agent. How many government agencies are there in CA?????
California is literally... LITERALLY a shit-hole
Thank you! :)
Class action? You can’t be the only one.
I looked into a class-action suit. Unfortunately, a "class" means that each and every person was harmed in an identical way, so instead of 100 identical lawsuits, you have one where the identical thing happened 100 times. Taxes are almost never identical situations since each family's income, deductions, withholdings, estimated payments and so forth are rarely identical.
RICO!! That’s the ticket.
Yup. In my speeches in both 2018 and 2019, I straight out said "This is the federal crime of racketeering per the RICO Act." Both years, the FTB did not attempt to deny my claims: https://vimeo.com/user93891576
For my court case, I was advised not to say that the FTB was running a racketeering scheme since that is for the judge to decide. My job was to lay out the facts so the judge figures out "racketeering scheme" for himself. However, the advisor said this sentence on page 9 was okay:
"The reason that the record did not show “timely payment” was because FTB breached their duty to apply that money to our account. It was not us who failed to pay timely, it was FTB who failed to apply timely.
I believe that imposing a Collection Recovery Fee to collect money that would not have been due had the payment been applied in accordance with the law is unconscionable. This type of practice is what you would expect from racketeering scheme, not from a government agency."
Move.
Considering it!
"This is a non-partisan issue." If only that were true. We all know only one party is completely lawless.
While Liberals all say they are happy to pay taxes, they only want to pay what has been "fairly assessed." They get just as pissed off about being racketeered into excess fees as conservatives do.
No, they just think the rules they want won't apply to them, and become upset if/when it does.
Those fucks froze my accounts TWICE last year claiming I owed them money. If I didn’t pay they were going to take it directly out of my account. I never lived in California and had to prove I didn’t by showing several years of tax filings. Dirty fucks!
Someone wrote a whole book on this! https://www.amazon.com/Evil-California-Franchise-Tax-Board/dp/1500491586
Usually, the FTB will mail these "tax due notices" to addresses that they know are old in the hopes that you moved and won't get the bill to dispute it. Then, with no dispute, they go ahead and seize your money. When I was doing research in the law library for my case, I found out that people who live out of state have no recourse to get their money back once seized. You are VERY lucky you were able to stop the seizure.
I got lucky and the gal I spoke to the first time was beyond helpful and extremely nice. She totally helped me square it away. The second time it happened I was told the first person handling my case was fired and the info I sent was never filed. I had to re-fax 72 pages of documentation to them. Not email. Fax. And since the FTB and FedEx Office are the only ones with fax machines, that cost a fortune to submit/resubmit.
I am fairly certain that the purpose of faxing is to set a high bar that is difficult for people to jump over. For example, an elderly person who doesn't drive anymore will have a hard time getting to a fax, and low income people won't have the money to pay for faxing. I can't tell you how much time and money I spent digging up old records (such as cancelled checks), driving to fax places, making copies of documents and faxing them!
I had a similar experience where I got a helpful, nice person who cleared up some of my issues. She left shortly thereafter, and I suspect she was fired over my case.
Oh it’s 100% to make it harder on people. Faxing is FILLED with issues making it difficult. Email is too reliable and too easy. I think the gal that helped me was let go for being too helpful. Crazy we both had the same thoughts.
make sure to let them know you have a killswitch, and try to record everything. I've heard of murder attempts by local town govts for much less.
One of the main reasons I have been uploading evidence to my website is so there is a record in case my house burns down or something like that. I am trying to be careful. This is probably a good time to mention that I am not suicidal, am a careful driver, and I do not use drugs of any kind -- I don't even like to take aspirin!
Thank you so much for posting this article! It is useful for my fight! :) I added it to the "relevant stories" page of my website.
YES! So the withholding racketeering scheme can be ended in one fell swoop by passing a law that says that "All estimated tax payments have to be applied timely." It's super simple and should pass into law with no problems. Toni Atkins refuses to put this on the table. She is basically protecting the gravy train of extra revenue by refusing to do anything to stop it. Will you contact her office and ask her to put this on the table? Unfortunately, the last day to put legislation on the table was in February, so now you have to wait until September to contact her. But please, put it on your calendar to write her AND call her about it around September 10 or so.
My assemblyman, Brian Maienschein, said he'd put it on the table if I can get a big group to support me (basically, if I can bring him a voting block that will vote for him in exchange for putting this on the table). I did not succeed in getting a voting block. Whose Assembly district are you in?
Edit: I forgot the link to my legislative ideas: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?page_id=61
Edit 2: Forgot to mention contact your Assemblyman -- especially if it's Maienschein.
I thought of a couple more things you can do to help:
Also, you may want to call the person currently running against your Assemblyman (sadly, nobody is running against Atkins) and tell them about these schemes and ask them to make my legislative ideas part of their campaign platform.
Finally, you may want to contact the local republicans to let them know what is going on. I talked to a couple people last year, and they were concerned but didn't do anything. Its on my to-do list to follow up, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Maybe hearing from a second person will get them to take it more seriously.
I'm a military member who was stationed in CA. Had bank assets seized over fraudulent "state taxes owed" claim (despite ID my employer as DoD and legal residency as TX). Kept my money for 7-8 months despite local SJA and US Attorney's office involvement. TL/DR: 1) Gave money back but made me involve SJA/ USAs. 2) Kept the interest. If you are filing a suit please PM me and I will turn over my docs.
Unfortunately, class-action lawsuits aren't normally allowed on tax matters. As I have been working on figuring out if the schemes that I got snared in were indeed illegal, I have come across a whole bunch of additional schemes.
Here are 4 of many that I have heard about: https://gwsandiego.net/blog/?page_id=28. I addressed another one in my 2018 speech: https://vimeo.com/311228307?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220
Currently, I am focusing on the schemes that are part of my lawsuit, but in the next few months, I plan to start working on some of the other schemes I have seen.
The FTB has several policies in place that allegedly allow them to randomly assign you an income and assess taxes due based on this imaginary income. It sounds like you got ensnared in one of those. I'd love to chat with you about how they justified this unlawful assessment and why it was so hard to get it cleared up. Once I get more info on how the various assessment schemes work, I can start digging into what the law says about their practices. Do you want to pm me your contact info?
Tried to PM you, not sure how it works on .win? Can you PM me?
Honestly it's to the point we need a full on tax revolt in California. Just have everyone max out their deduction for State and watch this shit hole implode.
Commiefornia fucking sucks ass.
CA FTB also invents debts as a fishing expedition. If you get a state cert and don't file taxes they assume you're a tax evader.
They make up a job, a salary, create a tax account, and then assign tax leins. Even if you're just in school or something and not working.
They only do it for a small percentage of cert textures recipients per year though
You forgot the part where they wait several years to assess the imaginary taxes due and then mail the assessment to the address you lived in at the time, not to the current address they have on file, so if you moved, you never actually get the tax assessment and don't have a chance to dispute it before a lien is filed.
But you got the part wrong about how they do it only to a small percentage of people. They do it to everyone; it is their official policy is to assume that if you hold a license or certification, you made the average income for that line of work and you have to pay income taxes based on this income they made up out of thin air.
I actually addressed it in my 2018 speech: https://vimeo.com/manage/311228307/general. Their response was basically: We can do whatever we want: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/meetings/taxpayer-bill-of-rights/2018_grab_response.pdf.
To be honest, I have not looked up the legal code they provided because I decided that I just need to focus on the issues that affected me directly. But eventually, I am going to get aggressive about the other schemes they have going, and this issue is at the top of the list.
So let me make sure I understand what happened... your county charges property taxes on businesses? On the real estate or on equipment and such? If it is on equipment, do you not have as much equipment as the county determined you should?
I plan to go to the law library again next week to get help with subpoenaing records. I'll ask about your situation while I am there. I just need to understand the situation a little bit better.
When I go to the law library, I'll look up the laws regarding assessing use tax on business assets. I'll take pix of the pages and send them to you. You review them, and if anything they did is out of line with the law, we can strategize on where to go from there. PM me your contact info.
Go on witcher bad self!
Good luck - I hope you rip 'em a new one.
Hey bigot, we gotta pay for the illegals somehow. Lol. Only racists question how their tax dollars are spent.
The way you get through to liberals is by questioning how the tax dollars are COLLECTED and not saying a word about how they are spent or who is in charge of collecting (the Democrats). As much as liberals claim they are happy to pay taxes, they get just as pissed off about being racketeered into sending extra tax payments and paying excess fees (and huge fees!) as conservatives do. The beauty of this issue is it is non-partisan.
I am hoping that I can set a legal precedent to stop the racketeering schemes going forward.
As for people who have already been scammed, you have 4 years to file a Request for a Refund of Penalties and Fees request from the date the tax return was due. Hopefully, a glut of people who have been recently scammed will submit requests and get their money back.
These fucking scumbags scam non resident active duty military members trying to collect "income tax".
While I was stationed in California the Franchise Tax Board came after me for three years straight claiming that I owed them income tax. This was impossible as I wasn't a resident of California, paid Colorado income tax and my only source of income was the US Navy.
They just took my name and attributed a random amount of money I owed without ever stating the amount of "taxable income" I supposedly earned under their jurisdiction.
I hope that the state government collapses and all these paper pushing faggots get cancer & end up living under an overpass. Fucking disgusting humans.
The FTB has several policies in place whereby they can make up an income amount out of thin air with no evidence whatsoever that any income was earned. I brought up one of the ways that they make up income in my 2018 speech: https://vimeo.com/311228307?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220.
However, I have decided that, for the time being, I am only going to focus on the schemes that personally affected me. However, in the next few months, I am going to start pushing back on other schemes the FTB is running, and the assessing income out of thin air is at the top of my list of schemes to pursue.
Thank you OP for fighting this battle and bringing light to the FTB's corruption. All the best on your lawsuit. I hope many more Californians who where similarly cheated are inspired by your lawsuit and pursue their own actions against the FTB.
You're hot....not only are you fisting a Dem shit hole government but you've traveled the world on a Nordhavn!!!
Keep up the great work and god bless!!!
Thank you!
You know what a Nordhavn is? My husband is ready to go get a beer and talk boats with you. :)
Yup but I'd rather just putz around the Caribbean and they are overkill for that. A nice Cat is what you get for that lol
Yup, shallow hull is very useful in the Carribbean.
yup
Doing God's work!
I escaped those bastards at FTB when I bugged out of the hellhole that is California many moons ago. But I still hate them. Loathe them, really.
Go get em tiger
Keep this story updated if you will
Will do!
If you live in California, I have just one question for you. WHY??????????
It's where we're from and we're deeply rooted here. Plus, the weather is phenomenal in San Diego. We're seriously considering leaving, though we feel stuck here until our parents pass away (both remaining parents are in their late 80s).
My old man had an issue with the FTB a few years back as well. Don't recall all the details but it had to do with paying quarterlies where you'd have a few quarters around the same amount of income, then a big job got finished with a client that you have on net-30, and they'd fine you for non payment on sales tax even though the client hadn't paid up. I can get better specifics tomorrow since there was more to it.
I'd love to hear more specifics. If its a sales tax issue, it would have been the BOE (prior to 2018) or the CDTFA (2018 and on), but several people have told me the sales tax agencies run similar schemes to the FTBs.
Bravo!
I truly hope you win this lawsuit. I'm so tired of these scammers fucking over the American people. Great job!
I used to work in several states per year. For state income taxes, each state gets its share based on how much of the year I spent there. Except California. California (FTB) said ‘fuck that, we consider you lived here for the whole year,’ and took way more than they deserved, in effect double-billing me because I paid to all the other states.
Someone argued FTB's bullshit residency guidelines all the way to the Supreme Court: http://www.taxabletalk.com/2017/10/26/reason-magazine-on-gilbert-hyatt-vs-californias-franchise-tax-board/
Good! Is this a class action? It could easily be!
I looked into a class-action suit. Unfortunately, a "class" means that each and every person was harmed in an identical way, so instead of 100 identical lawsuits, you have one where the identical thing happened 100 times. Taxes are almost never identical situations since each family's income, deductions, withholdings, estimated payments and so forth are rarely identical.
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Just read the thread. Good luck and God speed.
It's ya boy California here again to prove that the left is shit, their ideas are shit, their streets are covered in shit, their morals are shit and if you let them move into your neighborhood they will turn it to shit too.
Hmmmmmm, this sounds suspiciously the same as what my State has done.
Taxes were paid, but for a few years I never bother filing, lo' and behold they said I owe $40K, but if I file, then the amount goes down.
The State filed papers stating that the money is owed, but there never was any collection activity, which makes me even more suspicious on the entire notion.
Someone get this info to Mike Cernovich.
They did this one year at the Federal level during Obama Admin. Lots of folks were getting their estimated tax payments returned. At the same time, they were showing Congress that they had a cash flow problem and needed funds. It was the weirdest thing. So, folks had to cash the check they got and send a new check or transfer back to Treasury.
Way to go! Keep it up... Next you should focus on infiltrating the CAGOP and enforce change within. As I just said in another comment the CAGOP favors democrat corruption right now.
Get friends and anyone who will join you to help infiltrate the CAGOP?
Note: I care about what happens to California a great deal. I know the people there can beat the crooked system if they wake up and fight back!
I talked to a couple GOP people last year about these schemes. They were concerned, but did nothing about it... It's on my to-do list to follow up with them. As for infiltrating... ????... it's not something I've thought about before.
If and when you think about infiltrating start small and work you're to the top. Get friends and others willing to join you in doing this? Think of it as an actual movement to reform the GOP in your state or destroy the whole organization within and start a new Party for CA...
By the way DeAnna @DeAnna4Congress on Twitter she is a victim of election fraud last week on Super Tuesday. She was running against John Dennis and lost due to fraud... Dennis is a blocker so Nancy can win in November and keep San Francisco.
And here's something for you to think about... Back during the 2018 Midterms CA had @RealJohnCox right? And now it's @RealJohnDennis running against Nancy for the third time in a row.
I'm sure you see what I am getting at here...
Election fraud in CA is BLATANT. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. In 2016, tons of dead people were voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUUb7iuA2w&feature=youtu.be
Fortunately, Tom Fitton took care of that for 2020 with a lawsuit forcing the counties to purge their voter rolls. But then the state responded by having the DMV "accidentally" register everyone to vote, whether they qualified or not. As far as I know, those false registrations weren't purged.
For mail in ballots, a huge percentage are thrown away due to "not matching signatures." This is determined by people who are not handwriting experts. Remember that the envelope of the ballot has your party affiliation by the bar code. I am willing to bet more republican ballots "don't match" than democrat ballots: https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/were-suing-california-because-it-threw-out-more-45000
This is just the tip of the iceberg with voting irregularity schemes.
Yeah... Last week I read a tweet that said when she went to her Polling place to go and Vote for DeAnna for congress right. But when she got there they said that she already voted... So what happened as she explained further is that vote was thrown out and she was allowed to Vote again it seems. This is a fraud scam on a whole new level!
Correct... This is just like a TV show to the Left; they want us to vote for the fun of it but in the end, they make the final choice for us!
But back in 2016, we fought back
You ask for a ballot simply by giving a name and address, no ID allowed. I am sure there are a lot of people with lists of names/addresses running around filling out ballots on behalf other people. It's very kind of them to take care of it for you, isn't it?
So knowing that she got the fraudulent ballot tossed makes me wonder... how many of these random voters come in after the real voter and have the real ballot tossed out and replaced with their fake ballot? All we know is whether our vote was counted, not if the ballot was replaced.
Right... Eventually the people of California will have to rise up and take action. A good start would be invading the CAGOP, taking it over.
I think you're off to a good start Pede
Thank you!
Good luck. In Florida state system, payroll is deposited into a "company account" instead of being delivered to the payees (employees) for two weeks. So, there is a two week delay in getting the money you are owed after you do the work. That money, all of the state pay money, sits in a magic account. So, they have have a rolling input-output with a two week delay for the whole pay system. Somebody is making a huge skim on that . Nobody cares or bats an eye.
You live in Cali, what do you expect?
I had a parallel situation with my bank. They held a deposit from clearing. I had 15 charges on my debit card - the largest was for $400. The rest were incidentals under $10. All where charged on the same day.
The bank applied the $400 charge first - intentionally. This caused my account to be overdrawn by $8.
They then put through the next 14 charges - and charged me a $32 overdraft fee for each charge.
I went into the bank to complain and they explained that they intentionally run the biggest charge first because they want to make sure people's mortgages get paid first.
Total bullshit.
If they would have applied the small charges first there would have been 1 overdraft fee.
I threatened to sue them and go to the press and they refunded all the overdraft fees.
IRS does the same thing to maximize late fees and penalties.
Best of luck dealing with corruption.
There is a scheme similar to this being run by Evers in Wisconsin.