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.
Thank you so much, my situation is different as they claim I owe money however I made no income as federally defined. So I went ahead an filled an appeal step before ota, with a letter from the irs saying I had no taxable income, no taxable federal income no taxable state income. So right now with the locked down I am just waiting for them. To review my evidence that I sent over to eh FTB. Be careful about putting your email out on the form. I know pm is a bit hard here I don't know how to to it either I have saved your email, so if I contact you it will be from a protonmail account as well. Thanks again
I'll delete my email address now that I know you've seen it. The FTB has 6 months to respond to your appeal. If you do not hear from them, then it is deemed a denial and you then have the right to file an appeal with the OTA. They are essential workers, so their 6 month deadline hasn't changed.
FTB has a very, very high percentage of people that they never send a letter out to... that way they don't have to outright deny claims like yours where you obviously don't owe. The hope is that you won't know you can file an OTA appeal without a written denial, or maybe you'll forget and miss the deadline to file, and they'll just be able to pocket the money. I forget what the deadline is now, but I want to say 3 months. FTB's website doesn't disclose that on its website.
Good luck!