The Employment Development Department (EDD)

The Employment Development Department (EDD) The Employment Development Department, or EDD, is one of the largest California state departments and is responsible for administering the payroll tax regulations for California businesses and individuals Payroll taxes administered by the Employment Development Department (EDD) include the following: Employment Training Tax (ETT) Unemployment Insurance (UI) Personal Income Tax (PIT) … Read more

Employment Development Department Installment Agreement – Part One

Under California law, taxpayers have a legal obligation to report and pay contributions and withholdings when due. If a taxpayer becomes delinquent in the payment of amounts due, the Employment Development Department (EDD) will take appropriate action to collect the full amount immediately.

The EDD recognizes that sometimes it is in the best interest of the state and in the interest of a California taxpayer that EDD allows an installment agreement to liquidate over a period of time an amount owed by taxpayer.

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How to Request an EDD Installment Agreement

There are many individuals – including famous ones – that don’t pay or haven’t paid their taxes in years. Take for instance the late Anthony Bourdain. Before he became a household name with “Kitchen Confidential,” he hadn’t paid his taxes in ten years. He lived with the unrelenting anxiety of the IRS finding out and taking the little money he had to live on.

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Learn How to Beat the IRS with the Tax Master Class

The first “Tax Master Class,” masterminded and hosted by Sam Brotman, took place on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 climate, the event was on Zoom, but for those who missed it, a recording will be made available.

Brotman’s message was aimed at business owners owing more than $100K in taxes. Although the IRS is systematic he warned that with its new influx of money and pressure from the U.S. Treasury to fill the widening $441 billion tax gap, it is far less likely to let the “big whales,“ slip through their nets . 

With his many successful years of defending clients against the IRS and the state of California, Brotman decided to put on a seminar about alleviating tax debt, in a sense, performing a much needed, long-form, free public service announcement.
 
Using his interest in high-stakes poker as a stage, he conveyed that dealing with the IRS is not a game of luck or chance, it’s a game of skill. In this way, his “Tax Master Class,” offers learning the edge to beating the IRS at their own game.

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