Monday, October 2, 2006
California Kills ReadyReturn Program
The California Franchise Tax Board at its meeting last week failed to extend the Ready Return pilot program. As a result, the program will not be available for 2006 tax returns, even though 99% of Californians who used the program in 2005 wanted to continue using it
See Lenny Goldberg, California FTB Drops Ready Return Program, Doc. 2006-19747, 2006 STT 184-3. For a legislative briefing on the ReadyReturn program, see here. For TaxProf Blog coverage, see:
- Federal ReadyReturn? (4/13/06)
- Status of California's ReadyReturn Program (2/27/06)
- Kambas on The California ReadyReturn (9/20/05)
- Bankman on Simple Filing for Average Citizens: the California ReadyReturn (6/14/05)
- Bankman & Norquist Debate California's ReadyReturn Pilot Program (4/13/05)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/10/california_kill.html
Big business won again. This is a sad commentary on California politics . . .
Posted by: Francine Lipman | Oct 2, 2006 1:04:11 PM