Month: December 2025

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At the 2025 Board Meeting, I Gave More Details About How FTB’s Schemes Work

February 2025 Update: FTB did respond to the requests.

At the FTB Board Meeting on Monday, December 8, in addition to making my planned speech, I had the opportunity to make a couple of off-the-cuff public comments that helped to put the pieces together of how FTB uses “gross incompetence” as a cover for their bona-fide criminal schemes to overcharge taxpayers, particularly small businesses.

The first comment was in response to a presentation on how FTB was going to improve its customer service by modernizing its contact platform. In the presentation, Mr. Banuelos and Ms. SoRelle did not address the serious problem that FTB has with hanging up on callers, so I asked about it in an 80-second public comment. FTB did not even acknowledge that I had made the comment.

This is the letter from FTB’s Disclosure Department that I had referenced in the video. From page 2:

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My 2025 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Speech Where I Called Out The State’s Off-the-Books Spending Account, How they Unlawfully Fund It, and Asked Employees to Stop Complying

This was the speech that I intended to make at the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting. The text, with links to evidence, is at the bottom of the post. The speech is only an overview, a detailed explanation is here.

Background: The Franchise Tax Board is required by law to take suggestions from the public on how to improve policy and procedures, as well as to take suggestions on changes in tax law, at the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights hearing. The hearing is usually incorporated in the December Board of Directors meeting as an agenda item.

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