State preparing to get tax cheats

As yet another tax season approaches, California officials are cracking down on cheats and delinquent payers - estimated at more than 750,000 across the state - who owe billions of dollars from 2006 alone. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News.

Now, with the state facing a massive budget crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing more funding to hire 500 employees for investigations and tax collections that he says could generate at least $126 million in net revenue for state coffers.

And state tax agents also have begun posting the names of the biggest delinquents online in an effort to capture more revenue.