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missbogencounty replied to your post: Oh hey!
What is this bullshit?!? I’m admittedly ignorant, but I think you’re great so this pissed me off. Is this the federal gov’t garnishing your bank account??
viaukraine replied to your post: Oh hey!
What happened? This is terrible. I think I’d be keeping all my money in a mayonnaise jar buried in the back yard.
iloverockandro11 replied to your post: Oh hey!
WTF.
It is soooooooo lame.
In the state of California Native persons residing on a reservation don't pay state taxes. It is kind of the trade off for living in BFE on crap land. Land that was "given" to us as reservations, but is just usually the land that wasn't particularly useful or fruitful so they didn't take it. Where I live used to be under the Salton Sea and the earth is so shitty and "salty" that nothing will grow.
Anyway, Franchise Tax Board has a special "team" or "unit" that does nothing but target Natives and bully them into paying back owed taxes. I say bully because that is what they do. They use big words and bank liens to try and strong arm some of us. Not to mention that in my experience it seems that they specifically go after the youngest and oldest tribal members (I am neither though).
Luckily I only ever keep enough money in the bank to pay a few bills at a time so I still have the ability to pay stuff. It is just so annoying to have to constantly be proving that I am who I say I am, I live where I say that I live, and what my ethnicity is. Especially since it is the same "team" of people getting all my documents!
Also, the mayonnaise jar is totally what we do!