The numbers.

• Position: News & trends - Financial statistics - Brief article

$394M

Total amount the state's top 500 delinquents owe the state of California.

--FTB

54%

Number of CFOs interviewed who said they give equal weight to both specialized and nontechnical, or soft, skills when evaluating candidates for staff-level accounting and finance positions.

--Robert Half

48

California's rank on the tax friendly list, making it friendlier than only two other states: New Jersey (50) and New York (49)

--The Tax Foundation

36,648

The number of tax returns in which a taxpayer used one or more "frivolous" arguments, as defined by the IRS.

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