State targeting business tax cheaters
State inspectors will visit storefronts throughout Van Nuys next month as part of a statewide crackdown on businesses that lack licenses and fail to pay taxes.Jerry Berrios in the Daily News.
Van Nuys is one of seven communities targeted by the Board of Equalization to ensure that local businesses are collecting sales taxes from customers and maintaining legal licenses.
An estimated 97 percent of California businesses register for state permits. The campaign, called the Statewide Compliance and Outreach Program, targets those that don't.
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Los Angeles Daily News City Hall reporter Rick Orlov writes about politics on the local, state and national stage.
Have you heard the one about LA "Business Tax?" Come on LA and CA for that matter. You have got to be f-in kidding me. I recently got an "assessment" for over 4 g's. Can't the city (and the whole state for that matter for supporting businesses and policies that try to drain money out of the poor) rob other people besides poor members of the working class? Give me a break. Nice tactic by the way. Don't make it clear to poor people who try to start a business that they owe city taxes on top of federal taxes and on top of state taxes. Then wait until the deadline is over so that they can slap you with a penalty, charge you interest and blame you for being uninformed. Then, while you are at it, hire poor black people who are already pissed off with being shafted by the system to work at the City of LA Finance Office to make it even harder to talk to anyone who actually cares. Nice tactic LA. Nice tactic CA. Raise revenue by robbing your poor members of the working class. Hey CA, here's an idea: why don't you go after the billionaires and politicians who cheat the system and don't pay your taxes instead picking on your struggling working class citizens? What a novel idea. CA, I hope you get what is coming to you.