FTB exec officer Gerry Goldberg retiring.Longtime Franchise Tax Board executive officer and CalCPA member Gerald Goldberg will retire Aug. 31. Goldberg has been the FTB's executive officer since September 1980, a tenure that spanned six governors and 24 elected FTB FTB Franchise Tax Board (California; they collect income and sales tax) FTB Family Tax Benefit (Australian welfare assistance) FTB First Time Buyer (housing) members. "I started with the Franchise Tax Board Sept. 1, 1980, so retiring Aug. 31 will make it 25 years exactly," Goldberg says. "It makes a good tale." Goldberg graduated from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in economics and received an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He left his job as a CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. in 1978, when the governor of Missouri appointed him director of the Missouri Revenue Department. Under Goldberg's direction, FTB revenue collection climbed from $9.5 billion in 1980 to $48.6 billion in 2001. He also championed the FTB's new headquarter head·quar·ter v. head·quar·tered, head·quar·ter·ing, head·quar·ters Usage Problem v.tr. To provide with headquarters: campus, which centralizes all income tax functions and facilities. "Gerry Goldberg has always been a man of integrity. He has served the citizens of California with pride and professionalism," says Bruce C. Allen, director of CalCPA's Government Relations. "We will miss him and wish him well in his future endeavors." In addition, Goldberg has overseen various FTB technological advances, including CalFile, the FTB's e-file program. CalFile grew from a pilot program in 1994 to nearly 60 percent of all returns. And under his leadership, the FTB implemented the Integrated Nonfiler Compliance System; Accounts Receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying Collection Systems; the Taxpayer Information System; the Business Entities Taxpayer System; and the Child Support Collection System. A member of the Executive Committee of the Multistate Tax Commission, National Tax Association and New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the State and Local Taxation Advisory Board, Goldberg is former adjunct director of the Center for State and Local Taxation at UC Davis and a former member of the IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. Commissioner's Advisory Group. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Gerry Goldberg for many years has exemplified the role of a distinguished, most competent and highly articulate public servant," says Stuart R. Josephs, CPA, chair of the Federal Subcommittee of CalCPA's Taxation Committee. "He will be greatly missed." |
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