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I have caught the Franchise Tax Board running eight different schemes to collect more money from taxpayers than is legally owed: three racketeering/embezzlement, one racketeering, and four to overcharge interest. James Lovett has caught three more schemes.

This summarizes all 8 schemes that I have uncovered.

Here is proof of the 4 schemes to overcharge interest. In that link, I mentioned that I had previously caught FTB manually changing interest upward, but didn’t include the proof. This is the proof that I referenced. Here is how you can figure out if you were overcharged interest, too.

Here is the CA Supreme Court Accusation that I filed against FTB employee Eric Yadao, which details three of the racketeering schemes. The fourth racketeering scheme: it looks like the FTB may also be unlawfully withholding estimated tax payments collected by taxpayer’s secondary employers.

James Lovett has uncovered a three more unlawful schemes. One is another racketeering scheme:  non-filer penalties for people who did file a return, AKA frivolous filing penalty. A second is that FTB extorts and coerces people who dispute this unlawfully imposed penalty by threatening them with an additional $5,000 penalty if they don’t waive their right to dispute. The third is that the liens that FTB files are fake! Those fake liens can be easily removed.

Here is a document titled “Accounting Irregularities” that I submitted in my Superior Court case as Exhibit 49. It contains hard proof of multiple types of accounting irregularities. It is clear these irregularities are how FTB “cooks the books.” It also appears that the “suspense” account where FTB parks the “no payments” (the unapplied estimated tax payments) may be an off-the-books spending account.

This is a post from 2019. I still hadn’t figured out nearly as much as I know now, but there are some puzzle pieces in there that eventually helped me figure the 8 schemes out. These puzzle pieces may be useful for others.

Here is a chart of payments we made for tax years 2008 through 2016. Of 20 payments, only four were applied timely. Many of the payments took years for the FTB to apply. Of those four payments, FTB overcharged interest on two. So only 10% of payments made were problem-free.

In 2017 and then again in 2018, Governor Brown and State Controller Betty Yee made it much harder to get your unfairly collected penalties, fees and interest back.

It looks like FTB is following a playbook that government agencies use to extract extra revenue for themselves.

I intend to file a Federal Class-Action Criminal Complaint against FTB. Here is a short video explaining how to figure out if you qualify to join. If you want to join in, please contact me at: FTBFighter at protonmail dot com (I did this on purpose to evade bots).

2017

Letter From FTB in July 2017 in which they misrepresent what the laws say about the credit elect withholding policy.

In December 2107, I Sent A Response to That July Letter Where I Call the FTB Out on Misrepresenting Laws. I copied Governor Brown and the FTB’s Board of Directors on it.

My 2017 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Request to End the Policy of Withholding Credit Elect Payments (one of 8 requests made for 2017).

FTB’s Formal Resolution to My 2017 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Requests. They again misrepresented what the law says regarding the withholding policies, and they also said that they have no problem hiding the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting from the general public, which is a violation of California’s State Rights. .

2018

In February 2018, I sent a letter to Governor Brown exposing FTB was overcharging interest and that there were serious accounting irregularities on my account.

In April 2018, I Sent a Letter to Governor Brown detailing exactly why the FTB’s withholding practices violate federal and state laws. I go through the tax code line by line and show how the FTB cherry-picked words out of context to justify these policies; but when read in context, the laws say the exact opposite of what the FTB claims. The FTB’s Board of Directors were also copied on it.

Video of a speech that I made to Legislators in December 2018 calling out some of the FTB’s unlawful/unfair practices (10 minutes). Note that in her response, Susan Maples, the Taxpayer Advocate, only addresses 2 of the 8 issues that I brought up, and she does not deny the allegations of racketeering. Text version of the 2018 speech.

Here is FTB’s written Response to my 2018 speech.

2019

Here is the Appellant’s Second Response Brief that I submitted to the OTA court. In it, I detail how the FTB used improper redactions to hide pertinent evidence, omission of pertinent evidence, and deceptive wording to create a false picture of what happened in my case.

In July 2019, FTB’s Disclosure Department denied that FTB has any withholding practices. Hmmm….. why the conflicting information from different departments?

Video of my Office of Tax Appeals hearing where I lay out the tactics that the FTB utilizes to execute their schemes (35 minutes). Note that the FTB does not deny that withholding the estimated tax payments was unlawful, nor did they deny that the Demand Notices (penalty assessment) would not have gone out had the payments been applied timely in accordance with the law. Written transcript of the OTA hearing

I lost my OTA case in a verdict that was so blatantly corrupt it was shocking.

I was harassed online by a FTB or OTA employee in November 2019.

Here is a 11-minute speech that I made to State Controller Betty Yee (who was chairman of the FTB’s Board of Directors at the time) , the other FTB Board of Directors, and FTB Executive Staff on December 3, 2019. It explains clearly and concisely how the racketeering schemes work, and calls them out on other unethical practices that help to cover up the schemes. Here is the text. The speech was time limited, so I also submitted a written submission, which is longer and more detailed than the speech.

Here is FTB’s response to my requests. It is terse and riddled with problems. I wrote a rebuttal.

2020

The OTA is an administrative court, and Californians have the right to have administrative court rulings re-tried in Superior Court of CA. In January, I filed a lawsuit against FTB for a refund of penalties, fees and interest!

In their Answer, FTB did not deny any of the specific allegations that I made against them. FTB’s Answer was so ludicrous that I filed a Demurrer, which is a request with the judge to have their Answer thrown out. The judge sided with FTB on the Demurrer, but that is probably a blessing in disguise. Had I lost, FTB would have had the opportunity to come back with a stronger defense.

In July 2020, FTB’s Disclosure Department again denied that any withholding practices exist.

I had filed a complaint with the California BAR Association against Eric Yadao, the FTB lawyer who made all the improper redactions/omissions/deceitful wording in the OTA case. In a ruling that was also blatantly corrupt, the BAR Association deemed that he did nothing wrong. I requested a review, and in the request I even more clearly detailed how Mr. Yadao had broken the law. On a side note, the California Auditor’s Office has confirmed the BAR Association is corrupt.

The Bar Association again sided with Mr. Yadao, so in August, I filed an Accusation against him in the CA Supreme Court. Unsurprisingly, the CA Supreme Court decided not to hear the case, and gave no reason why.

In October, I requested some records from FTB for the court case. They gave me some of the items that I requested, but not all of them. In December, I filed a Motion to Compel Further Discovery for the missing items. I believe these items will prove FTB committed fraud.

I made another 11 requests at the 2020 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting, which was held via webinar. Here is the video of the full speech that I tried to make (12 minutes). For those that prefer reading over video, here is the written speech.

Unfortunately, State Controller Yee muted me after 5 minutes. Controller Yee did say that they had already received my written submission (which was longer and more detailed than the speech), and all of the requests I’d made would be addressed in their Response.

Here is FTB’s response. Just like all of the previous years responses, it is riddled with problems, including blatant collusion to cover up some of the criminal activities, and essentially admitting that other criminal activities are intentional. Here is my rebuttal.

2021

In response to the requests for documents that I had made in October 2020, FTB did provide amortization tables showing how they calculated the interest that they charged. I went through the ledgers line by line and caught FTB overcharging interest via four different mechanisms.

In March, I launched a documentary series exposing FTB corruption!

In March, I also made another speech to FTB Board members opposing their plan to increase FTB’s litigation budget by $2 Million. As soon as my speech was over, the board voted to approve the budget increase.

In May, I filed another Motion to Compel, this time for more information about FTB’s policies and procedures. We also had the hearing for the first Motion to Compel (the one that I had filed in in December 2020). The Attorney General’s Office LIED to the judge in our hearing!

In September, FTB filed a Motion for Sanctions against me to try to weaponize the civil court system to stop me from and punish me for working on my Federal Criminal Complaint.

In November, I filed my first Federal Criminal Complaint. It was against the two FTB Collection Agents who directed me to send more money than the bill stated was due, then falsified FTB’s internal records to make it appear that was always the amount due. Also included in the Complaint was Deputy Attorney General Barsegyan for harassment and retaliation.

In December, I sent out two more legislative change requests: the first was to require a judge’s approval to implement involuntary collection tools, and the second to end the marriage penalty. I also made another speech at FTB’s Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting with 10 requests.

2022

In January, FTB filed its Motion for Summary Judgment.

March was a busy month. I filed a second Federal Criminal Complaint. This one was against FTB employees Keith Swank and Chelsea Hubbard for Perjury, Withholding Evidence and Improperly Redacting Evidence. Also included was Deputy Attorney General Anna Barsegyan for Knowingly and Deliberately Misleading a Judge, Harassment, Retaliation, Abuse of the Court System, Violation of Rights, Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy to Cover Up Criminal Activities, and Setting Keith Swank Up as a “patsy” via Suborning Perjury and Subterfuge (there is also prima fascia evidence that she may have set up Chelsea Hubbard as a “patsy,” too.)

Also in March, FTB and I both filed a slew of documents in final arguments before the court case was completed on March 25th. Here is my Opposition to FTB’s Motion for Sanctions and Plaintiff Request for Sanctions and my Plaintiff’s Statements of Undisputed Facts. Both were rejected by the judge on technicalities. With my documents rejected, my case didn’t stand.

In the final hearing, the judge threatened me, implying that something bad would happen to my “nice family” if I continued to make allegations of government corruption. After the case ended, I took the judge’s threat seriously and took a hiatus from the FTB fight for nine months.

However, I refuse to live in fear. I am going to fight for what is right even if it means making personal sacrifices. If enough people overcome their fear and fight back, the evil empire won’t be able to silence all of us and we’ll be able to end the evil practices once and for all.

In November, I started fighting again. I sent out three more legislative change requests: Close the Married Loophole, Tax Agencies to Comply with Due Process Laws, and Repeal R&TC 19179(c)(2). I also submitted 11 written requests to FTB for the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting.

In December, I made another speech at the ATBOR meeting (I spoke remotely). I filed a BAR Complaint against Deputy Attorney General Anna Barsegyan. I also filed a Claim against Anna Barsegyan and Grace LeBleu’s with ORIM, which is the government agency that deals with insurance policies (in lieu of bonds), for exposing my and my husband’s social security numbers on the internet.

2023

FTB’s response to my 2022 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Request was the usual spate of deceptive word-smithing games designed to give an inaccurate impression FTB’s policies and procedures without saying actual lies.

The BAR Association at first refused to open a Bar Complaint against Barsegyan. After aggressive pushing, they finally opened the Complaint and then immediately turned it down. I have filed an appeal, which takes 8-months to process.

My first insurance claim against Anna Barsegyan and Grace LeBleu was denied, so I repackaged it and refiled it. The second time, I was given permission to move forward with a lawsuit against them.

At the FTB Board Meeting in March, FTB admitted that it is falsely imposing penalties, interest and fees on taxpayers via bad customer service. They also implied that wage garnishment and penalties are also being falsely imposed, but didn’t explicitly admit to it. FTB admitted that they were having a hard time retaining new employees — newbies tended to quit before FTB even recouped the cost to train them. FTB begged for another $25.23 million taxpayer dollars to hire more agents and give the existing agents raises, claiming that the lack of agents was a result of low wages. I sent the Board and Executives letter arguing that the high turnover rate was due to FTB’s culture of corruption.

In preparation for filing more Federal Criminal Complaints, I started collecting oaths from FTB staff and from people at other government agencies who were involved in the cover up of FTB’s criminal schemes. A disturbing number of high ranking people do not have oaths, and a large percentage of those without oaths are also members of the BAR Association.

I’ve also attempted to collect bonds. At this point, it is clear that the State of California is systematically violating the law by not issuing bonds. I have been notifying state and federal regulators of these oath/bond violations, but as far as I can tell, no one with the power to enforce regulations cares about these blatant violations of the law by our public servants.

In anticipation of the lawsuit against the State of California, I filed five more insurance policy claims:

In September, I was interviewed on by Audra Morgan on Eye of the Storm.

In December, I submitted 12 more written requests about FTB policies and procedures and made another speech at the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting. A new item that I brought up was FTB’s obsession with collecting data on the poor. During the meeting, one of the board members enthusiastically commented on how FTB were master data miners and another asked how FTB can get more people without social security numbers to file California tax returns.

2024

Here is FTB’s Response to my Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Requests. They have really doubled down on their unlawful policies and procedures. I’ll eventually get around to writing a rebuttal.