City of Madera Attorney Hiring Policy With Responses Page

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  The letter that accompanied the materials, that were received based on the documentation previously requested by the Madera County Grand Jury, informed the Grand Jury about a new program that should help in solving the problem of finding rental properties and collecting the revenues for the rental business license fee. The letter mentioned the Local Government Sharing Program (AB63). This program allows any city in the State of California to request a listing of any resident filing a tax return as a resident of that city that contains a Schedule C. This information will be cross-referenced with the business license database. Individuals not licensed by the City of Madera will receive a notice of violation and have a specified amount of time to correct the violation or prove that they do not do business within the City Limits. This allows the City of Madera to be sure that they are collecting Business License fees for all City of Madera businesses that also California State tax forms. The City of Madera signed a sharing agreement with the Franchise Tax Board, under AB63, on May 20, 2004. The City of Madera is to receive its first disc in January 2005. Finally, in December of 2004, another cross-reference is scheduled with the County of Madera database, which will cover rental business licenses. The last cross-reference using the County property tax database was done in January 2003. The Finance Director did not mention this during our June meeting. The Madera County Grand Jury commends the City of Madera for initiating the use of recent technology in solving revenue collection problems.

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