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October 3, 2021February 10, 2024

The Playbook That Government Agencies Use To Get Away With Criminal Schemes

I watched a video about a woman in Arizona (AZ) who had her children stolen by Child Protective Services (CPS).

As I watched the video, my jaw dropped as I realized that CPS in AZ used strikingly similar tactics to violate the laws as the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) in California (CA) used against me. It can’t be a coincidence that my experience was so similar to hers when it was a completely different issue, involving a completely different agency, with completely different circumstances.

I am starting to realize that there must be a playbook of tactics that government agencies use to extract extra revenue for themselves. Obviously, the specific tactics are customized by the agencies, but the general playbook appears to be identical: 1. Lay a trap, 2. Deny due process 3. Rig the justice system and 4. Have other government agencies cover it up.

September 19, 2021December 22, 2022

Proof of Accounting Irregularities

As you all know, I filed a Motion to Compel on Specially Prepared Interrogatories, Set #1: Clarification of Policy and Procedure.

I also prepared and submitted to a second set of interrogatories to FTB, called Specially Prepared Interrogatories, Set #2: Accounting Irregularities. Here are the questions. Many of the questions refer to the attached evidence, and specify which page of evidence to look at. Here are evidence pages 1 – 18 and pages 19 – 36.

August 25, 2021December 28, 2022

My Second Motion to Compel: Clarification of FTB Policies and Procedures

*Note: This post is in the middle of being reformatted. Please excuse the odd appearance.

In this Motion to Compel, I prove that FTB committed 8 counts of perjury: three counts by Chelsea Hubbard and five counts by Keith Swank. I also laid out in detail why it appears that obfuscation and conflicting information about FTB’s policies and the laws on which these policies and procedures are based is because FTB knows these policies and procedures are unlawful. Here are pages 1 – 18, 19 – 36, 37 – 54, and 55 – 72.

The last paragraph of page 3, all of pages 4, 5 and 6, and the first paragraph of page 7 are important to read in full because they contain the overview of the assorted questionable business practices that are detailed in the rest of the document. I did not highlight those pages because every word would be highlighted! The rest of the document is repetitive and tedious, so I have highlighted the important stuff for you.

June 2, 2021December 22, 2022

Attorney General Lied to the Judge in Our Hearing!

The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been so busy with the case that I haven’t had time to update the blog. On Monday, May 24, 2021, I filed another Motion to Compel Further Information, this time on Specially Prepared Interrogatories #001: Clarification of FTB’s Policies and Procedures. The Motion + exhibits was 495 pages. It’ll take me a long time to redact and upload them all, but I will get it uploaded eventually.

On May 28, 2021, there was a hearing on my first Motion to Compel Further Information for Additional Documents. In FTB’s Opposition to Motion that they filed with the court, Deputy Attorney General Anna Barsegyan made numerous deceptive and several outright false statements to the judge!

May 15, 2021August 17, 2022

More Segments Uploaded to My YouTube FTBFighter Channel

Here is the speech I gave at FTB’s March 2021 Board Meeting (held via webinar) in which I opposed FTB’s Request to increase FTB’s litigation budget for 2021/2022 by $2 MILLION. Seconds after my speech, The Board voted to approve the increase.

Here is a video explaining how to figure out if you qualify to join our upcoming Federal Class-Action Criminal Complaint against FTB. More details can be found on the Federal Class Action Criminal Complaint page.

We’ve also loaded more segments of the documentary! So far we have:

May 12, 2021December 22, 2022

Fraudulent Statement By FTB Regarding Demand Penalties

So much stuff has come out recently in my court case. A longer post will come next month, but I wanted to share something that I know is a fraud that is systemically perpetuated by FTB. Below is a copy/paste of an exchange of information with FTB that I submitted as part of my court case (the full document is here). I hope other people currently facing bogus Demand Penalties can use it to help them in their own fight against FTB’s corruption. Here is the list of laws that are referenced below.

SPECIAL INTERROGATORY NO 6A: The attached page 9 is a page from FTB’s standard operations manuals entitled Demand Penalty. It states “a penalty will not be imposed if any of the following are met:… We do not assess the penalty when the return has a zero total tax liability.” Could you please clarify whether this means the penalty won’t be imposed if there was never any tax owed for the tax year or whether this means that the penalty won’t be imposed if there is no outstanding balance on that year’s tax liability.

FTB RESPONSE TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORY NO. 6A: Under Revenue and Taxation Code section 19133, a demand penalty is imposed if a taxpayer fails to timely respond to demand notices in the manner required. Demand penalties are imposed as required by law before consideration of any payments or credits. The demand penalty is computed at 25- percent of the total tax liability before any prepayments or credits are applied to reduce the tax liability. Thus, any payments and/or credits made by Plaintiff are irrelevant in the determination of the imposition of demand penalties under California law.

ARGUMENT FOR COMPLELLING RESPONSE TO SPECIAL INTERROGATORY 6A: FTB has misrepresented what the law says by making two deceptive statements and one false statement in the section above. In the first sentence, Mr. Swank omitted pertinent portions of Revenue and Tax Code 19133. In the second and third sentences, he conflated two separate issues as if they were one and the same. The fourth sentence is false, and only appears to be true as a result of the deceptive and misleading statements that preceded it.

March 20, 2021June 11, 2021

We’ve Launched A Documentary Series!

I am excited to report that James Lovett and I have launched a new documentary series exposing the corruption at the Franchise Tax Board! We plan to release a series of short videos, each focusing on a specific topic.

Today we released Trailer #1: This is Christi’s Story, Trailer #2: FTB’s 8 Illegal Schemes to Overcharge Taxpayers, and a segment called “The Linchpin of FTB’s Withholding Schemes is the NPA.”

The Linchpin segment quickly but clearly explains how FTB falsifies a document called the Notice of Proposed Assessment in order to unlawfully impose penalties.

James and my long-term goal is to go after FTB with Federal Class-Action Criminal Complaints. If FTB has falsely imposed penalties on you using the withholding of payments scheme that I described in this video, please join the complaint! Email me at FTBFighter at protonmail dot com (I wrote it like this to avoid spam bots).

March 18, 2021February 11, 2024

How To Figure Out If Franchise Tax Board Overcharged You on Interest

I filed a Federal Criminal Complaint against Franchise Tax Board for Overcharging Interest. My goal is to find fellow taxpayers who have also been overcharged interest so that it can be a Class Action Criminal Complaint. So please, check to see if you have been overcharged interest. If you were overcharged and would like to join in on the Federal Criminal Complaint, please email me at: FTBFighter at protonmail dot com (I wrote it like this to avoid spam bots).

Step #1: Send a letter requesting copies of your Amortization Schedules.

This is a record of how they calculated the principal balance, how many payments you made, how the payments were applied, and how much interest was charged in the interim between each payment that was made.

February 10, 2021August 25, 2024

FTB’s 8 Schemes To Overcharge Taxpayers

For those that prefer video, here is a 12-minute speech that I made to State Controller Betty Yee via webinar in December 2020, which sums up the info below. We’re also working on a documentary series exposing the corruption.

The over-simplified explanation of the schemes that I got ensnared in is that the Franchise Tax Board does not apply the money that you send them to your account right away. Then they charge you penalties for “paying late.” Then they over-charge interest on these penalties.

But you have to understand that the reason that they’ve been getting away with their criminal activities is because tax law is complicated, and they work the complex nature of the laws to deceive the public on what the laws actually say.

February 10, 2021December 22, 2022

My Rebuttal to FTB’s Response to My 2020 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Request

Here is FTB’s Response to my 2020 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Requests. Here is the rebuttal that I wrote in which I detail the following:

The Interim Taxpayer Rights Advocate, Chris Smith, committed multiple counts of collusion to cover up criminal activity by misrepresenting what the law says about FTB’s practices of withholding estimated tax payments from the taxpayer’s account .