Governor Newsom has proclaimed May as Small Business Month. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) is here to help with a variety of free resources to enable small businesses to make sales successfully in California.
Small businesses are vital to California’s economy. They create good jobs, energize our main streets, and increase economic opportunity for California’s entrepreneurs. In the first quarter of 2022, more than 34,800 business owners registered for new sales and use tax accounts with CDTFA to open a business. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, 22% more taxpayers registered to open a business this year. During fiscal year 2020-2021, the CDTFA had 1.3 million registered businesses, which includes a 7.7% increase in sales and use tax permits compared to the prior fiscal year.
“The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration strives to make doing business with us easy and convenient. We know that small business owners are often trying to figure out taxes and regulations after working all day to help their businesses succeed. We are here to help,” said CDTFA Director Nick Maduros.
CDTFA has several free tools to help small businesses do business in California:
- Online Services allow business owners to file their sales and use tax returns, make a payment, and register with the CDTFA.
- More than 50 Industry & Tax and Fee Guides and 780 Downloadable Forms & Publications assists taxpayers in finding answers to commonly asked tax and fee questions relevant to a particular industry.
- Free Seminars, Classes, Clinics, & Workshops enable attendees to sign up for classes that allow interactive one-on-one question and answer sessions. Last year, CDTFA helped more than 9,200 taxpayers in 350 classes and online seminars.
- The Taxpayer Educational Consultation Program offers free one-on-one consultations to new taxpayers during their first year of business.
- Local Offices assist taxpayers through video or in-person appointments to get help with their accounts.
- Customer Service Center representatives are also available by calling toll-free at 1-800-400-7115 (CRS:711), Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Pacific time), and via online chat. Last year, CDTFA assisted more than 597,800 taxpayers through our call center.
CDTFA is working hard to make life better for Californians by fairly and efficiently collecting revenue that supports essential public services. CDTFA’s goal is to help small business owners to understand their tax responsibilities.
[Information via news release from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.]
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Tim Scott says
I’ve been mostly retired for about a third of my age, so she needs to be due.
Or not.
Some people just like working. I wasn’t one of them, but to each their own.
Sonya says
Ya so with that math I got another 10 years to get to your lazy azz retirement age.
Also I have people depending on my services, something you do not.
Tim Scott says
Yeah, that’s part of what retired means.
Good luck on the ten year plan, seriously.
Sonya says
SYS
; )
Tim Scott says
Maybe. Let’s say I am hoping that you get to retire in my lifetime.
:)
America's Most Unqualified Art Critic says
Her happy face is much prettier.
FWB says
I just mailed in my ballot today. I wrote in Tim Scott’s name for everything but Sheriff. I kinda like the cowboy hat wearing vaquero of Mexican decent.
America's Most Depraved Reprobate says
I think Villanueva is Puerto Rican.
America's Most Enormous Borinqueneer says
! Viva Borinquen !
Tim Scott says
Just took a quick look at 50th in Quartz Hill…for all this “killing it” you say is going on how many businesses there have lasted ten years? Five years? I’d guess half a dozen?
Sonya says
Boy,
I guess tuesdays are, ‘im wrong at everything day’ for good ol’ Timmy
Beecee says
Common Sonya,
This is coming from the guy that said catalytic converter theft isn’t a large scale problem in the valley, and stating it was most likely the vehicle owners commuting insurance fraud…
Hey maybe that was a Tuesday as well…
Tim Scott says
On this Tuesday approximately eight hundred thousand catalytic converters were found still attached to the cars they started out attached to in the Antelope Valley, just like every Tuesday.
Out of Business says
The C19 lockdowns was just a prologue. The upcoming recession/depression will finish even more small businesses off.
Tim Scott says
40 years of Reaganomics already did the trick for the most part. The GOP has played small business like the proverbial fiddle…slaughtered 90% of them while still holding huge margins of support in that demographic. Hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.
Sonya says
Who are you trying to fool?
Go outside and get some sun.
Tim Scott says
I’m actually a little sunburned right now, so pass. As to fools, yeah the GOP counts on them. I’m sure they love you.
Anyone who thinks the GOP is good for small business (other than Sonya who won’t be able to grasp this) should take a look at ANY legislation they have passed in the past fifty years that they claim is good for small business. If it gives small business a tax break that saves them a hundred dollars, it will give a big corporation that competes with them a million dollars which will be used to drive them out of business. That is true EVERY time.
That’s why after forty years of GOP economic policies and forty years of GOP candidates yammering about how they support small business it is almost impossible to find an actual successful small business.
Sonya says
“it is almost impossible to find an actual successful small business.“
Absolute clown take right here.
You like to spend your days here saying things that are the furthest from the truth…
You are truly a trip.
Tim Scott says
Sonya providing her expertise on absolute clownism. I guess in your career field there isn’t really much corporate competition. How’s things on Sierra Highway going?
For those who have a wider awareness…
Independently owned stores vs Walmart?
Independently owned diners vs McDonalds?
Independently owned hardware stores vs Home Depot?
Independently owned (fill in anything that used to be found on main street in every town in America)…
Sonya the corner ho may still not follow, but I’m sure most of you can.
Sonya says
“Sonya the corner ho“
Just what I’ve been waiting for, you to say something like this.
This absolutely makes my day!!!
Tim Scott says
I notice you have no argument with the actual topic. Small business used to be the mainstay of business, until Reagan rewrote the economy and tilted the playing field against it so heavily that it has been dying out ever since.
Sonya says
Your wrong.
Im sitting here at my successful small business on 50th St. Quartz hill killing it just like all of the other small businesses up and down this street.
Your opinion is most likely coming from someone who sucked as an employee or failed miserably at some kind of business venture.
Pat your self on the back
Tim Scott says
LOL…”but look! Here’s ONE” that makes all trend analysis wrong!!!”
Off Sierra Highway so I guessed wrong.
Are you in the being stupid business?
For the record, I also ran a small business…in a field without corporate competition mind you…and did great…but I was still well aware of the realities going on in the economy.
Sonya says
“and did great“
BS
Tim Scott says
Well, you are sitting at your business and I am enjoying my retirement, so…
America's Most, Best Used By .....Uh oh says
“Independently owned hardware stores vs Home Depot?”
Damn right, I miss H&E bigtime.
Sonya says
“and I am enjoying my retirement“
Yeah,
In an absolute butthole neighborhood of the antelope valley.
Like I said you’re not fooling anybody.
-Sonya the corner ho ; )
Tim Scott says
First off, you demonstrably don’t even know what neighborhood I live in, since you have on multiple occasions said things about Desert View Highlands as if they relate to me. Second, just because you are such a glaringly obvious bigot that you couldn’t survive in a neighborhood without gates to keep the brown people away that doesn’t mean normal folk hold that “standard.”
Meanwhile, I am intrigued with how you are responding to the “corner ho” thing. I called you a DC over and over and over and got no reaction. That’s usually a MUCH more effective “lose your mind” pejorative. I just mentioned “corner ho” because that is a business where your “oh corporate competition means nothing, small business support from the GOP is da best” mindset is…explicable. But it seems to have really landed. Do I need to update my list of lose your mind words, or is there some personal aspect that makes you more reactive to that than to DC?
Beecee says
“Well, you are sitting at your business and I am enjoying my retirement, so…“
Lol, she’s also half your age
Beecee says
“just because you are such a glaringly obvious bigot that you couldn’t survive in a neighborhood without gates to keep the brown people away“
And she’s brown…
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the small guy says
What’s not good for small business and small contractors is Kalifornia
the small guy says
Retired and residing in the AV is sentence in itself.