"Gil Faver" <rowdy'sboss[at]xxyz.com> wrote in message
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By asking for proof of business expenses, they are trying to establish a
minimum level of gross receipts (assuming that none of the expenses were
paid from savings or prior year's/s' retained earnings) on which to base
gross sales and therefore impose the tax (also assuming that 100% of the
transactions are sales/use taxable).

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"Gil Faver" wrote:

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My experience is from the assessed but unpaid side, and there's a lot of
information there about possible collection sources as well as who in the
business might have personal liability (if the business is a corp that can't
pay).
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Phil Marti
Clarksburg, MD

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Under what typical circumstances would the California Board of Equalization
(the sales tax people; I don't know what else they do) ask a landlord for
detailed information about a retail business which is a tenant? The
landlord has no dealings with the BOE, so this is clearly the BOE
investigating the tenant for something.

They are asking for copies of leases, payment history, copies of rent
checks, who made the payments, contact information, etc.

My guess is they are going after his failure to pay his sales tax returns,
but I don't see the relevance (except in a very general way) of the
requested information to this possibility.

This group has vast knowledge, so I thought I would ask.

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