Posted on 10/05/2025 3:57:32 AM PDT by know.your.why
Resolution?
YMMV
Deposit the check image into your cash fund.
Fidelity allows me to deposit check images into my “cash management” account that I sweep into my HSA.
It is likely you can sweep it into your OGB account from Fidelity (and other retirement account management groups)?
I can move funds around 3 different ‘types’ of financial accounts.
Again... YMMV
I'm probably mixing apples and oranges a little, but the book "The Great Taking" by David Webb seems to cover some aspects of this. I believe he makes the case that the entire stock and bond markets are now governed by regulations which state that if the Big Boys run into serious financial trouble, they are allowed to just take everyone's portfolio. That whole $300T derivative portfolio of worthless 2008 toxic stock trash? The investment bankers can just pay it off with all of your retirement funds. Because your retirement funds don't really belong to you quite as much as you think they do. This isn't about "social security" and it isn't just about your "401K". This is about your stock portfolio managed by Fidelity Investment and others. Under certain circumstances, your money can be taken to pay off their debt.
“Auto registration “issues” and related taxes and fees are very common—and probably the most likely scenario.”
Yes, even if you sold a car before you leave there, if the new owner hasn’t transferred it into their name yet then they will go back and retroactively ding you for the fees they have not collected for all those years since it expired.
But this is from the Franchise Tax Board. That is usually concerning Sales Taxes they assume you collected and owe from a business. If you do not close out a resale permit or file a quarterly return you are guilty of collecting and not submitting those funds collected. Whether you conducted any business or not, whether you collected sales taxes or not, whether they have any proof or not. They just estimate what they think you owe and take it with no due process.
Have read through the thread.
Could someone have stolen your identity and is sticking you with an unpaid debt?
Nothing coming to mind.
Did you used to play Monopoly? Maybe correcting for a “Bank error in your favor”?
Webb is correct.
New “fine print” has been added to most types of accounts (banks, mutual funds etc.) that basically says that in the event of an “emergency” (which .gov gets to define) they can “borrow” your money as needed.
It is legalized theft.
OGB does have a network of sites that will accept direct cash deposits - places like CVS, UPS stores, IIRC.
This is great for people like me, hobbyists, who find buying/selling personal property and managing the money through banking networks easier than keeping a(nother) mattress or 25 cubic foot Liberty safe packed with $100 bills. ;-)
Except they are doing these things without any proof, a judge, court orders, or due process at all. A computer just does it automatically and you never even get the opportunity to have your day in court and defend yourself.
Maybe this???:
As an employee, self-employed individual, independent contractor, or part of the gig economy, you may have a requirement to file federal and state income tax returns. The federal return is filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the state return is filed with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB).
California likes to “revise” your state taxes years later, and send you a letter informing you that you owe them another few hundred dollars. They did it to me twice in the 16 years I lived there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they tracked me down and tried it again. I left in 2020. Oh, and my taxes were very simple. I was just a teacher, and I used the 1040EZ till they did away with it, then I just let H&R Block do them. They were never itemized, or involving dependents or property or anything. They still “revised” them on me.
They probably “revised” your state income taxes for some random year and sent you a bill, but it didn’t find your mailbox, so they went the direct route. They’ve done it to me before too. How it’s legal I do not know.
Did you ever reside/work in Kalifornia?
If so, and you retired, they (at least used to) claimed part of your retirement and taxed it...many military got screwed by them for being stationed there...
Well deserved for living there...
If this might be a tax issue, you might want soend what’s left of the weekend getting together your tax records so you can be prepared on Monday morning.
California assumes you still luve there and if you do not pay yearly vehicle registration (among other fees) they will seize money from your account to pay it. You have to specifically file forms telling them you moved to prevent it. I had to threaten legal action to get my money back after I left back in 2000.
Because they need the money and it was ‘right there’ for the taking?
It’s not the taking I’m questioning, it’s the revising. How can they decide that you just owe them more because they’ve been rearranging how they do things? That’s really dangerous. They could retroactively change their tax brackets, and turns out your income for 2014-2020 is now in the 20% category! Surprise!
Blame the law that mandates all financial outfits to force you to ID with SSN. No way to do personal banking without their getting that and that is the key to any state getting into accounts your have any where in the USA.
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