Is the IRS or the FTB After Your $$?
Or is it the crooks, crims and con-men posing as them?
Recently a friend texted me a letter he got from the FTB regarding his 1998 taxes. The letter stated that he owed thousands of dollars based on their estimate of base tax plus fees, penalties, and interest.
He said he called the person that signed the letter, and she would send him forms.
He asked me how they could go after him for something from 1998?
Tax agencies are con artists, and they have no statute of limitations. Both the FTB (California Franchise Tax Board) and the IRS Internal Revenue Service of the US — Dept of the Treasury) have cold case departments.
My friend recently moved back to the area where he lived in 1998. His change of address to the USPS may have triggered a notice to the FTB.
Several days later, another friend (in his 80s) called and said that the IRS had called him on the phone and told him he owed thousands of dollars in taxes.
In the first scenario, my friend getting the letter from the FTB sounded legit. He got a signed letter in the mail with a phone number; he called and spoke to someone.
The second scenario of the IRS “calling” my 80s friend raised red flags.
