The California Franchise Tax Board at its meeting last week failed to extend the Ready Return pilot program. As a result, the program will not be available for 2006 tax returns, even though 99% of Californians who used the program in 2005 wanted to continue using it
See Lenny Goldberg, California FTB Drops Ready Return Program, Doc. 2006-19747, 2006 STT 184-3. For a legislative briefing on the ReadyReturn program, see here. For TaxProf Blog coverage, see:



