California tax operations workspace | OmniTax

Coordinate business income and franchise tax, sales and use tax, permits, payroll, unemployment, notices, and local overlays across California's separate agencies. Official sources, operating records, current signals, and professional-review boundaries are explicit.

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  • Business income and franchise
  • Sales, use, and permits
  • Payroll and unemployment
  • Pass-through and owner reporting
  • Local, property, and special programs
  • Corporate income, franchise, and gross receipts
  • Individual income
  • Sales and use
  • Real and personal property
  • Payroll, withholding, and unemployment
  • Pass-through entities
  • Excise and industry taxes
  • Transfer, estate, inheritance, and gift
  • Local tax overlays
  • Credits and incentives
  • Unclaimed property
  • Registration, nexus, and account governance

Public knowledge 01

Authority routing

  1. 01

    Franchise Tax Board: Business income and franchise tax, entity accounts, returns, payments, audits, and proposed assessments — https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/index.html

  2. 02

    California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: Sales and use tax, special taxes and fees, seller's permits, returns, payments, appeals, relief, and correspondence — https://cdtfa.ca.gov/services/

  3. 03

    Employment Development Department: Payroll tax, unemployment insurance, employer registration, returns, deposits, and account management — https://edd.ca.gov/en/payroll_taxes/File_and_Pay

Public knowledge 02

Operating lifecycle

  1. 01

    Establish: Footprint facts, assumptions, source date, and accountable owner.

  2. 02

    Route: Authority map, account reference, access role, and routing rationale.

  3. 03

    Prepare: Data lineage, workpaper version, exceptions, and preparer certification.

  4. 04

    Review: Review notes, unresolved items, return decision, and reviewer identity.

  5. 05

    File: Approved artifact, filing receipt, payment evidence, and status trace.

  6. 06

    Respond: Notice image, due date, response, authority outcome, and closure approval.

Public knowledge 03

Open operating console

  1. 01

    Business income and franchise: Confirm legal entity, filing requirement, period, e-file treatment, account access, payment path, and review owner.

  2. 02

    Sales, use, and permits: Reconcile legal entity, permit locations, activities, return periods, filing access, and closure/change events.

  3. 03

    Payroll and unemployment: Validate employer account, payroll source, return and deposit responsibilities, access roles, and reconciliation evidence.

  4. 04

    Pass-through and owner reporting: Attach current law, entity facts, owner population, calculations, elections, payment, and approval.

  5. 05

    Local, property, and special programs: Map locations and activities to the responsible authority before accepting an obligation.

Public knowledge 04

Notice and authority response

  1. 01

    Identify whether the item is an FTB, CDTFA, EDD, or local notice before routing the case.

  2. 02

    Capture full correspondence, dates, periods, accounts, issue codes, and response instructions.

  3. 03

    For an FTB proposed assessment, distinguish the notice from a bill and preserve the protest-by date.

  4. 04

    Separate technical position, factual reconciliation, payment, protest, appeal, relief, and amendment decisions.

  5. 05

    Require documented approval and retain delivery, authority response, outcome, and remediation evidence.

Public knowledge 05

Current official signal

  1. 01

    Business e-file conformity update: Current filing requirement context

  2. 02

    https://www.ftb.ca.gov/tax-pros/efile/efile-for-business.html

Public knowledge 06

Primary-source ledger

  1. 01

    California Franchise Tax Board: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/index.html — reviewed 2026-08-20

  2. 02

    California Franchise Tax Board: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/tax-pros/efile/efile-for-business.html — reviewed 2026-08-20

  3. 03

    California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: https://cdtfa.ca.gov/services/ — reviewed 2026-08-20

  4. 04

    California Employment Development Department: https://edd.ca.gov/en/payroll_taxes/File_and_Pay — reviewed 2026-08-20

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