(Delinquent) Tax Time

Businesses, have you paid your sales tax bills? If not, prepare to add public humiliation to the list of problems you'll be dealing with. Thanks to a new law, for the first time the state today publicly posted a list of the 227 worst sales tax delinquents. Altogether, they owe the state of California about $219 million.

Don't worry if you're just a few days late paying your bill. These are debts that go back several years for which the state has made multiple attempts to collect, including taking out liens.

The worst offender is a Tustin business, Southland Federal Enterprises, that owes $17 million to the Board of Equalization.

There are probably about a dozen businesses from the San Fernando Valley on the list, including one in Tarzana that owes about $7 million.

Link to the list here.