- Register as a Tax Preparer
- Law, legislation & form updates
- Compliance initiatives
- Appeal process
- Manuals & procedures
- Mandatory e-pay for individuals
- Electronic Payments Tool Kit
- Subscription services
- State holidays
- Tax agencies & professional organizations
- Report tax fraud
- Disaster Loss
- Send us your comments & suggestions
- Package X information
What's new
- Credit Assignment (R&TC Section 23663) - Frequently Asked Questions and Interested Parties Meeting information. (updated 12/1/09)
- Backup withholding - Payers performing federal backup withholding must also withhold and remit 7 percent of a reportable payment to us. (updated 11/16/09)
- Coming in 2010 - Sign on to My FTB Account. (posted 11/02/09)
Meetings, newsletters, bulletins, and seminars
- Tax News – Monthly online newsletter covering tax law; FTB regulations, policies, and procedures; and events affecting tax practitioners.
- Public Service Bulletins – Intermittent announcements about changes in processing.
- Meetings – Interested parties | Franchise Tax Board | Regulation hearings
- Subscription services – Free special interest newsletters – Law, tax, meetings, etc.
- Seminars & Workshops – Various State and Federal tax seminars and workshops.
Online services
- Pay-by-phone option for taxpayers required to e-pay.
- Email reminder service for estimated tax payments
- View account information (My FTB Account) - Estimated tax payments, recent payments applied to a balance due, total current balance due, a summary of each balance due tax year, California wage and withholding information, and FTB-issued 1099-G and 1099-INT information.
- e-file for tax professionals – Individual program, business program and information for software developers and transmitters.
- Electronic filing of information returns – Forms 1098, 1099, 5498 and W-2G.
- Secure electronic communication (SEC) – Taxpayers, authorized taxpayer representatives, and certain state agencies can exchange (send and receive) confidential information with designated FTB staff electronically.
- Secure web internet file transfer system (SWIFT) – Government agencies and external business customers can securely exchange (send and receive) large files with FTB.
- Report a Systemic Issue - A systemic issue affects multiple taxpayers, relates to FTB systems/ policies/ procedures, or involves protecting taxpayer rights, or reducing or preventing taxpayer burden.
Contact numbers, mailing and web addresses
- Tax Practitioner Hotline
- Phone – 916.845.7057 (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., except state holidays)
- Fax – 916.845.6377 (24 hour service)
- Power of Attorney – Form FTB
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Power of Attorney general information
- Fax – 916.845.0523 (24 hour service)
- e-file Help Desk – Call 916.845.0353 (Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., except state holidays)
- FTB Information Directory – Department-wide directory of phone numbers plus web and mailing addresses