BulldogTom Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 Warning - half venting - half asking for a solution. My client in CA got a notice of balance due. After looking at the notice (which was sent to me a month after they got the letter), I realized that the LLC payment was not applied to the LLC (SMLLC disregarded). The payment was made electronically with the timely filed return and we have proof of the payment came out of the client's checking account. I suspect the payment went to the taxpayer's account and not the LLC account. So I get a POA for CA for the individual and write a letter to the FTB with all the details. Sent the letter Priority Mail. 10 days later, tracking shows it is still not delivered. Go to the post office and they say it looks like it is lost in Sacramento. Sent the letter a second time. Surely they won't lose the letter again. 10 days letter the tracking shows it is still not delivered. Somewhere in Sacramento. Go to the post office and they take it to the manager who is about as useless as tits on a boar! "Nothing we can do - I can't contact anyone in Sacramento to find out where the package is". So I go onto the FTB website and get the address for express delivery. FedEx says they can't deliver to that address! I am at a loss. It seems like sending the letter again via the postal service is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Does anyone have a physical address for the FTB? Tom Longview, TX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewOne Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 What a nightmare. They recently moved their headquarters: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/L943.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogTom Posted August 29 Author Report Share Posted August 29 20 minutes ago, BrewOne said: What a nightmare. They recently moved their headquarters: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/L943.pdf That is the CDTFA offices. But thanks. Tom Longview, TX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewOne Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 my bad, sorry. I stopped doing California returns after I was told I needed to pay them $800 per year because I operated as an LLC. Not sure if that is correct, but wasn't worth the trouble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max W Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 DUNNO IF THIS'LL WORK. BUT IT IS WORTH A TRY. O/WISE PHONE COLLECTIONS AND GO UP THE CHAIN IF THE THE PERSON ANSWERING CAN'T HELP. (PARDON THE CAPS) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee B Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 Tom, this happened when you replied to the address in the FTB Notice received by your client? You could call the Tax Practitioner Hotline or have your client set up a MyFTB account and reply via your client's MyFTB account. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max W Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 I had omitted this link - " https://webapp.ftb.ca.gov/INC/Contact/Ind " It will allow you to email the FTB and get an answer on 21 days, or so they claim. I had to put quotes around it, otherwise it prints the title and not the link. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medlin Software, Dennis Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 https://www.ftb.ca.gov/help/contact/mailing-addresses.html 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogTom Posted August 30 Author Report Share Posted August 30 2 hours ago, Medlin Software, Dennis said: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/help/contact/mailing-addresses.html Showed that to FedEx and they said they won't send it that way. They want a physical address. That was when I just about had my head explode. Tom Longview, TX 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medlin Software, Dennis Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 Try that for USPS express. USPS knows how to get it to a zip+4 "location". The problem will be there is no way to get a signature, if that is what you are after too. Priority is fine for a reasonable way to get status, but priority is barely better than stick a stamp and drop in a receptacle for actual delivery. I might even go to a USPS office and have them print the label, so you can be even more sure the address is in their system. The IRS has funky addresses too, where the address they publish is not in the USPS database (how I print postage and labels directly). The only other thing I can think of is to see if a phone call or fax to FTB will get some sort of more direct mailing address you can try. Many state employees can get mail to their building if one knows the address, floor, room, or whatever gets it out of the receiving room. Patience is tough. If the proper amount has been paid, then I would mail it several ways, and await (without worry) their next response) if any ever comes). Recently, the IRS posted a 941 to a prior (and properly reported) quarter. This resulted in a bill for underpayment for the now coupled up quarter, and a refund for the quarter the form was actually for. I called, got someone who could actually see what happened, and did "something" on their end, and asked me to send amended returns. I eventually paid a tiny amount of something (interest/penalty/stop bothering me fee) and can confirm the amounts were properly applied. I could have contested the fee, but it was not worth the time. I have copies of the original, so I am certain I did not make the human mistake, but things happen since they still accept paper files and use likely antique scan and human review to process. Maybe there was fuzz on the paper of scanner and the tick for the Q was read wrong. --- Same type of stuff every year with WC insurance. I pay a flat fee (as I do not reach their min fee), then pay again for true up for the "other" costs, then I get a refund back as it is sort of a mutual fund type deal (those in CA know what company I mean). Annoying to the perfectionists and helped me get to a "some goes out, some comes back" way of balancing WC figures. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 Have you tried faxing your response? I haven’t mailed anything to the FTB in years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medlin Software, Dennis Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 I had to mail something to dmv today. No electronic option. Took me 15 minutes to find the stamps. Had not used them in at least a year. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogTom Posted September 5 Author Report Share Posted September 5 10 hours ago, joanmcq said: Have you tried faxing your response? I haven’t mailed anything to the FTB in years. @joanmcqYou got a fax number for FTB responses? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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