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The failure of CALIFORNIA Board of Equalization - Part I

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From: Tuan Nguyen
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 20:47
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This part is  followed the first part, the failure of California BE
or How not to pay the sale tax on car purchase.

Even with the help from Assembly Gil Ferguson's office,
the Board of Equalization still play dead under the
supervision of Matt Fong, a board member, and is running
for State Treasurer in November 1994. I don't know
why people should vote for him after they read this article.
The public should know whether he is doing anything or
he is just career politician.
Please see reference (6) for more information.

When I reported the matter about one car dealer, the dealer
name was TDC Auto Sales, to Mr. David Sleka, branch manager of 
Board of Equalization in Arcadia
in Los Angeles County, the B&E(Board of Equalization)
auditor already found over $200,000.00 in sale tax were
missing. However, the office of Matt Fong would cover
this problem up to avoid the embarrassment to B&E under
his district. Please see reference (7). It took a lot of work
to force the B&E to do the audit so they can have something
in their record as they would not want to do anything with
this car dealer.

Next, I track down another dealer, who took a minimum
$300,000.00 of sale tax in a period of 2 years, then
report to the B&E, and B&E would not want to do the audit,
and here are the reasons:
    a. The business was incorporate.
    b. The incorporation was being shutdown. 
    c. It took a lot of time and B&E has limited staff.
    d. B&E has no problem if someone stole the sale tax
        as they had no pain in paying the sale tax when
        they purchase anything.    
    e. B&E employee still get pay any way whether they have
        any case to pursue or not.
    f. The investigation was secret so they could not disclose
        anything and report anything.
    g. Why doesn't B&E go after someone who is active and
        big rather than a car dealer who just stole only
        a few hundred thousand dollars per year.

So, I figure out when the Board of Equalization would not
have an interest or pursue the matter even the fraud is
evident:
    a. Incorporate the car dealership.

    b. Take the sale tax but do not pay the Board of
        Equalization for a few year, then close the    
        corporation down, and file a new one.

    c. It costs only $10,000.00 in bond to open a used
        car dealership to collect sale tax.
        And, it costs about $1,000.00 to incorporate.

    d. Report anything you want to DMV, but not the same
        information to Board of Equalization as the
        computer system does not exist. Please see the
        reference (3).

    e. Report the lowest sale price as possible as the
        Board of Equalization would not want to do
        anything to improve this even I suggest them one.
        This means the sure profit as B&E would not want
        to do anything about this situation.
        B & E mockerily even told me where to go to
        report the lower sale price.

    f. Have many bank accounts, one car dealer opened about
        12 bank accounts in Los Angeles and Orange County
        and bought $485,000.00 in cashier check/CD in a period
        of 1 year to pay himself when he was awashed with
        cash from sale tax.

    g. Close down the corporation when you heard anything
        from B&E as they were discouraged to do the audit
        or investigate. You can start a new one after the
        old one and conduct business as usual.

    h. Don't worry about the situation when some one tries
        to report your wrongdoings. B&E will threaten
        the person to shut up so the public would not
        know their failure to make the State Agency
        embarrass, I'm the witness in this case.
        Please see reference (6).
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From: tan@netcom.com (Tuan Nguyen)
Subject: The failure of CALIFORNIA Board of Equalization - Part I
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