“如果我还是财政长官，我会让特许税务局现在就进入战时状态来研究对策，”一位前州财政长官告诉《政治报》（POLITICO）。
“If I were still controller, I’d have the Franchise Tax Board in a war room right now trying to figure this out,” a former state controller told POLITICO.
加州萨克拉门托——数十年来，加州税务官员一直在追查声称已搬出州外的富裕居民。但如果选民下月批准一项有争议的亿万富翁税，特许税务局——华盛顿特区之外全美最大的税务征收机构之一——将不得不在前所未有的规模上开展这项工作：确定哪些亿万富翁仍居住在加州，评估其全球大部分资产的价值，并征收一项预计可筹集约1000亿美元的税款。
SACRAMENTO, California — California tax officials have spent decades pursuing wealthy residents who claim they’ve moved out of state. But if voters approve a controversial tax on billionaires next month, the Franchise Tax Board, one of the country’s largest tax collection agencies outside of Washington, will have to do that on an unprecedented scale: determining which billionaires still live in California, valuing much of their worldwide assets and collecting a tax expected to raise about $100 billion.
亿万富翁们拥有反击的所有动机——和充足的资源——他们已明确表示不会心甘情愿地交出钱财。
The billionaires have every incentive — and ample resources — to fight back, and they have made it clear they will not willingly part with their money.
谷歌联合创始人、千亿富翁谢尔盖·布林去年底开始切断与加州的联系，他的老搭档拉里·佩奇也如此。PayPal和Palantir创始人彼得·蒂尔表示他要搬到迈阿密，并将加州敌对的税收环境列为首要原因。汽车贷款大亨唐·汉基收拾行囊前往税收环境更友好的内华达州，他在离开时告诉媒体，他感觉自己“不再受欢迎”了。
Sergey Brin, the centibillionaire co-founder of Google, began cutting ties with the state late last year, as did his old business partner Larry Page. Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Palantir founder, said he was moving to Miami and pointed to California’s hostile tax environment as the prime reason. Car loan magnate Don Hankey picked up and headed to friendlier tax climes in Nevada, telling news outlets on his way out that he felt like he “wasn’t wanted” anymore.
该州一些顶尖税务律师声称已帮助至少六位未公开身份的亿万富翁客户离开该州。
Some of the state’s leading tax lawyers claim to have helped at least a half dozen other unpublicized billionaire clients leave the state.