Ghost Tax Preparers.

The FTB's California Tax Education Council (CTEC) Enforcement Team within the Filing Compliance Bureau is conducting a pilot program focused on ghost tax preparers--tax preparers who fail to provide their Preparer Tax Identification Number or otherwise failed to identify themselves on tax returns they prepared for compensation.

The state Legislature created CTEC to promote competent tax preparation and to protect California taxpayers. Since 2005, CTEC has partnered with the FTB to identify unregistered tax preparers.

The pilot program includes two new letters, FTB 906A-Tax Preparer Verification, and FTB 906B--Request for Tax Preparer Information, Both letters were created to help identify...