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.
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.