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I started to generall disagree with this post, having had similar experiences with many other states harassing me to make sure I didn't need a return there beca

I started to generall disagree with this post, having had similar experiences with many other states harassing me to make sure I didn't need a return there because of some information that tripped up their systems. I know from experience at least two other states would have bothered him (CT and NY). The California franchise fee is high, but it's really not high compared to the cost of a single W2 employee. However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess. For businesses under a certain revenue it should be file-able by one person in their spare time and anything else is a waste of even the state's reasources to go through. This absolutely should have either federal or California regulation to correct.

QuikAccount 5y ago
> However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess. Very much worth mentioning that companies like Intuit spend money hand over fist each year to keep the tax code complicated.
- HighPlainsDrftr 5y ago
  I very much agree with that statement. It's been a decade ago since I read the article about this - and I'll try to fine and post it after I post what I read. It costs federal taxpayers around $500 billion dollars a year to file their taxes. Why can't that be more efficient? That is a hell of alot of money that could be handed back to the taxpayers - or added to the federal budget. Just to live, people are paying part of that. Just to be incorporated, corps are paying that. Just to file paperwork - and have someone cover it for you. What if we could use that money to start focusing on solving cancer? Mental health issues. Instead - we pay that money and all we get is some paper that goes through a 1960's mainframe eventually (which nobody understands the IRS mainframes anymore), and risk having them just stress us out more. That doesn't help anyone. It's a mess to get into. It's a mess if your successful. I'm not so sure this isn't a mechanism to suppress parts of our population (or all of it).
cardiffspaceman 5y ago
States Rights is why this is not organized among the states or even uniform, except for what you owe to the Federal Government.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
  Part of the problem, but the other half of the problem is greedy state government with s** policy

QuikAccount 5y ago

> However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess. Very much worth mentioning that companies like Intuit spend money hand over fist each year to keep the tax code complicated.

HighPlainsDrftr 5y ago
I very much agree with that statement. It's been a decade ago since I read the article about this - and I'll try to fine and post it after I post what I read. It costs federal taxpayers around $500 billion dollars a year to file their taxes. Why can't that be more efficient? That is a hell of alot of money that could be handed back to the taxpayers - or added to the federal budget. Just to live, people are paying part of that. Just to be incorporated, corps are paying that. Just to file paperwork - and have someone cover it for you. What if we could use that money to start focusing on solving cancer? Mental health issues. Instead - we pay that money and all we get is some paper that goes through a 1960's mainframe eventually (which nobody understands the IRS mainframes anymore), and risk having them just stress us out more. That doesn't help anyone. It's a mess to get into. It's a mess if your successful. I'm not so sure this isn't a mechanism to suppress parts of our population (or all of it).

cardiffspaceman 5y ago

States Rights is why this is not organized among the states or even uniform, except for what you owe to the Federal Government.

s1artibartfast 5y ago
Part of the problem, but the other half of the problem is greedy state government with s** policy