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 .
- Mr. Smith stated that FTB’s accounting irregularities which lead to overcharging of interest are intentional business practices, not “flaws.” Mr. Smith did not deny that FTB overcharges interest.
- Mr. Smith did not deny the racketeering scheme in which FTB delays re-applying “misapplied” payments until after the account has been put into collections and penalties falsely imposed.
- Mr. Smith stated that FTB has “no capability” of opening correspondence timely. He did not deny that FTB falsely imposes penalties on people for “not responding timely,” even when FTB did receive the correspondence timely but FTB didn’t open it timely.
- FTB has not denied that it abuses the Notice of Proposed Assessment in order to falsely impose penalties.
- In addition to calling out all of the above, I harshly criticize FTB for many of its other unethical business practices, such as unfairly targeting those of low socio-economic status with their assorted schemes, and playing evasive games to avoid accountability.