I love the idea, but I’m not sure there even is a mechanism for California to withhold federal taxes. Business and Income taxes go straight from the individual to the IRS. California couldn’t very well tell it’s citizens not to pay federal taxes because it couldn’t protect them from the consequences of that, unless we were talking secession. And that’s a whole other conversation.
Just say the word. I will file taxes with IRS but send the funds to FTB. Case closed.
Might be hard considering the damages from the fires are projected to exceed the entire GDP of the state.
That’s not how federal income taxes work. That’s not how any of this works.
Fed taxes from CA residents don’t go via the CA government collecting and then forwarding them. CA government doesn’t have possession of the tax money from which to “withhold” shit.
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I love the idea, but I’m not sure there even is a mechanism for California to withhold federal taxes. Business and Income taxes go straight from the individual to the IRS. California couldn’t very well tell it’s citizens not to pay federal taxes because it couldn’t protect them from the consequences of that, unless we were talking secession. And that’s a whole other conversation.
Just say the word. I will file taxes with IRS but send the funds to FTB. Case closed.
This gives me Jerry Brown vibes, and [his decision for California to launch its “own damn satellite”](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/14/john-kerry-climate-change-california-summit) with science generally under attack by the then Trump administration.
Might be hard considering the damages from the fires are projected to exceed the entire GDP of the state.
That’s not how federal income taxes work. That’s not how any of this works.
Fed taxes from CA residents don’t go via the CA government collecting and then forwarding them. CA government doesn’t have possession of the tax money from which to “withhold” shit.
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