Overcharging Interest – Page 2

December 6, 2022December 17, 2023

Eleven (11) Requests for FTB’s 2022 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting

Every year, the Franchise Tax Board hosts the Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting, where constituents can make suggestions on how to change tax law and/or FTB policy and procedure to improve the system. FTB asks that you send them a written Request in advance, but it is not required; verbal Requests are accepted. Whether or not people can make a written request without speaking at the meeting is questionable. FTB let me do so in 2017, but others have told me FTB says that is not allowed.

Below is the written submission that I sent to FTB for the 2022 meeting. I participated in the meeting remotely; here is the video that I made of myself giving the speech.

Here is the text of the speech, which is shorter than written submission. The video of the full meeting is here, and I spoke from 14:35 – 19:45.

November 29, 2022

Franchise Tax Board Taxpayer Advocate Office

Email: FTBAdvocate@ftb.ca.gov.

CC: FTB Board Members and Executives

Re: Eleven (11) Requests for Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting

Hello Taxpayer Advocate Staff:

Here are my eleven (11) requests for the 2022 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting. I’ve included the Board Members on this email, as well. Since I know most of you are too busy to read long letters, I have highlighted the key sentence of each item.

November 30, 2021February 11, 2024

Ten (10) Requests for 2021 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting

This year’s Franchise Tax Board Annual Taxpayers Bill of Rights Meeting was held online on Thursday, December 2, 2021. Here is the five-minute speech that I made.

FTB prefers, but does not require, that you submit the requests in writing prior to the meeting so they know what to expect. There is no limit to how long a written submission can be, so my written submission was much longer and more detailed than the speech was.

Written Version of the ATBOR Requests

November 30, 2021

Franchise Tax Board Taxpayer Advocate Office

Email: FTBAdvocate@ftb.ca.gov.

Fax: (916) 843-8330

Re: Ten (10) Requests for Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting

Hello Taxpayer Advocate Staff:

Here are my ten (10) requests for the 2021 Annual Taxpayer Bill of Rights Meeting.

Close the Loophole That Allows FTB To Evade Due Process for Implementation of Collection Tools

Require that FTB appear before a Superior Court judge to procure a proper judgment in accordance with the laws of the State of California prior to implementation of Collection tools, including wage garnishments, levies and liens. Please see email dated October 23, 2021 for details.

November 27, 2021December 26, 2022

My First Federal Criminal Complaint is Filed!

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

I have filed the first in a series of Federal Criminal Complaints against assorted FTB staff for their various crimes. I believe that the majority of staff at FTB are good people “who are just doing their jobs.” Unfortunately, these job duties include bona-fide crimes. I believe that FTB staff will remain complicit until they are held personally accountable for their unlawful behaviors. The “just doing my job” argument is not allowed in court.

This Federal Criminal Complaint is against Carrey Burton-Beilby and Alexis Bear, agents in FTB’s Collections Department, who each directed me to send FTB more money than the bill stated was due, then falsified FTB’s internal accounting records to make it look like that higher amount of money was the total that was always due.

October 8, 2021November 6, 2022

How FTB Covers Up Their 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 a second set of Interrogatories to address FTB’s accounting irregularities.

And I prepared a set of documents called “Requests for Admissions” to help clarify the methods that FTB uses to cover up the assorted policy/procedure and accounting irregularities that were addressed in the Interrogatories. Here are the questions. Many of the questions refer to attached documents. Here are documents pages 1 – 18 and 19 – 35.

October 7, 2021December 28, 2022

FTB Is Retaliatory Harassing Me

On Sunday, August 29, 2021, I attempted to file a police report with the San Diego Police Department against two FTB staff for overcharging me interest, which is the crime of fraud. Here is the proof of fraud by Alexis Bear and by Carrey Burton-Beilby. FYI, a police report is an important first step in getting a grand jury investigation launched. As a side note, I later found out that the right venue is the FBI’s website, and I did file reports against Bear and Burton-Beilby with the FBI.

On Monday, August 30, 2021, Deputy Attorney-General Anna Barsgeyan, who is FTB’s attorney for the civil case that is pending in San Diego Superior Court, made a reservation for a Motions for Sanctions hearing in our civil case. On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, she filed her Motion, requesting that the judge stop me from gathering evidence for my federal criminal complaint and that he penalize me $8,000 as a punishment for gathering the evidence that I did. She also posted my and my husband’s full social security numbers on a public website.

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.

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, 2021September 28, 2023

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 .

February 9, 2021December 22, 2022

FTB’s 4 Schemes to Overcharge Interest

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 us. I went through the amortization schedules line by line and caught FTB overcharging interest via four different mechanisms:

1. FTB’s accounting system seems to systematically add small amounts of excess interest.

2. FTB staff can apparently manually override the system to artificially inflate interest due. (In 2018, I’d caught another instance of this, as well).