Several months ago, I blogged about the Franchise Tax Board somehow losing my tax payment. For the last 2+ months, I’ve been calling them to find out the story and was promised a call back a number of times. No one ever called me back and I called them again today. This time, I got a different story…I had to make the payment AND the interest and penalty. So the $68.81 penalty and interest has now gone up to $92.31 because they’d been jerking me around for 2 months. This is not to mention the $20 stop payment fee I have to pay the bank so that the original payment doesn’t get cashed. I’m going to send the damn payment today by certified mail (or registered letter) to ensure that they get it and I can put this behind me. I can’t believe I have to pay an additional $23.50 due to their incompetence. My future tax payments are going to be sent certified or registered. I don’t have the time or patience to deal with their stupidity.
I\’ve had similar experiences in both CA and FL. Any important tax return or payment is worth sending by certified mail. Having this \