A state audit released Tuesday found that 25 managers at California’s troubled tax collection agencies were overpaid by at least $72,000 because they failed to record sufficient leave when absent for whole days.
, and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, which was created that year to assume many of the tax collection duties formerly handled by the Board of Equalization.“We also estimated that overpayments to other CDTFA employees in similar job classifications may have totaled more than $500,000 during the same period,” State Auditor Elaine Howle wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The report issued Tuesday also said that the Judicial Council of California mismanaged its Assigned Judges Program, which pays retired judges to help courts with backlogs. The program assigned and compensated retired judges to work in superior courts that already had surpluses of judges. Howle said that the council has already made changes to better assess the need for help and control spending in the program.—Three engineers with the State Water Resources Control Board cost the state $47,000 for work they did not perform by arriving to work late, taking extended lunch breaks and leaving work early.
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