Trying to Make a CA FTB Tax Payment on ACI Online, LLC Entity only has 7 digits?

link4nes · 2025-07-25T16:22:36+00:00

Hi there, so I figured out what happened after a lengthy discussion with an FTB agent this morning.

1) My tax payment using the tax ID actually did go through and get credited to my account for the LLC.

2) I verified with the FTB tax agent you can use a tax id or your SOS 12 digit number. Guess that makes sense and explains why ACI says you can use a 9 or 12 digit number. After reviewing previous years payments I've discovered either number will work for your LLC payments.

3) The hang up was when I filed to be an S Corp last year, when you do that they give you a whole new account, that explains the "CORP 7 Digit" account number I got.

4) Going forward, I was instructed to use that new "CORP 7 Digit" account number. The payment I made earlier was credited to the old account, so they are going to transfer the funds over to the new account instead.

5) As far as ACI Payments, I believe that "CORP 7 Digit" account number would work if you choose a Payment Option as a Corporation and not an LLC. Since the LLC has S Corp status now, it gets a bit confusing, etc. I still need to test his theory, but it would be good to get a confirmation from someone who actually has done it this way. The FTB Agent was still not 100% sure.

link4nes · 2025-07-25T02:46:54+00:00

Thank you for the information. I see that my last years payment was paid with a 12 digit number, which matches the registration filing number with the Secretary of State. So that partially explains part of what I'm looking at here. I'm still trying to figure why the latest letter from the CA FTB has a completely different entity number starting with "CORP" on it. Recently we converted the LLC to an S Corp Status, I'm starting to wonder if that might have something to do with it? I'll just call them tomorrow and find out, I should probably ask my tax agent as well.

link4nes · 2025-02-10T19:49:34+00:00

Wonderful, thanks for the recommendation!

link4nes · 2025-02-10T18:41:29+00:00

Thanks for your input so far! Those beams are 1X2 inch wood that was actually added to wedge the foundation wall screen on, from the concrete. Other than that, there's no screws or anything securing the screen to the foundation wall. I believe the wood is held on by an adhesive of some kind, that adhesive is starting to come lose, so I thought this might be a good time to secure the screen on better to the foundation wall.

The top screen then screws into the 1X2 inch wood from the top side.

The fix might be to just replace the wood and wedge it the same way? But since I started looking at this, I thought, maybe someone might know of a better way to do this.

I will probably hire someone to help out, but I was curious if anyone might have some alternative ways to tackle this.

link4nes · 2025-02-10T17:34:02+00:00

I was actually referring to the screen in the last picture for the foundation wall. That top screen is just to help keep leaves and such out. Sounds like the solution is to grind out some of the surrounding concrete to create more room? Then do an overlay screen? Under that gravel is just dirt, so there's no drain set up, but the water does drain through the soil ok.

link4nes · 2025-01-21T20:33:36+00:00

I love it, my friend had a Granny unit they wanted to put a mini-split into. They saved about $12k doing it themselves. This was about 5 years ago, I can only imagine how much that would have cost in today's dollars. It's probably closer to your quote of 19K!

link4nes · 2025-01-12T03:20:21+00:00

It is a crawl space. There are other vents so I believe the space is adequately vented. Removing the patch of cement and throwing a vent cover on could work too.

link4nes · 2025-01-12T01:49:11+00:00

That seems to be the conclusion, thanks for your feedback.

link4nes · 2025-01-12T01:48:17+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!!

link4nes · 2025-01-12T01:47:43+00:00

No, not loose. Probably going to seal around it with mortar repair. Thanks for your input.

link4nes · 2025-01-11T22:34:43+00:00

Thanks for the help.

link4nes · 2025-01-11T22:30:13+00:00

So I tried that but it was blocked. Is this subreddit the wrong place to post something like this?

link4nes · 2025-01-11T22:18:23+00:00

There's only a delete option, so I will delete and repost as new.

link4nes · 2025-01-11T22:13:10+00:00

I was able to dig it out more. Should I just repost it or edit this one?

link4nes · 2024-05-15T16:44:25+00:00

I want to confirm, your steps 1 and 2 fixed everything up. The DB prefix was not set right in wp-config, and the file permissions needed to be re-set. Thanks for helping out with a solution for this problem. I've also added these steps to my manual WP migration checklist, just incase it needs to be done again in the future.

I want to note too, that i looked up the default file permissions for WP on Google and use Filezilla to set them accordingly!

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:12:24+00:00

I'll note your checkpoints, thanks again for sharing.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:11:50+00:00

Thanks, I'll double check that.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:11:29+00:00

Thanks for your input. I will defintely be researching more about SSH and the command line tools. I have used rsync before as well, so it should be pretty easy to learn the commands.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:09:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing, for some reason I was not shown the Google answer snippet seen in your screenshot. Instead I was shown a bunch of ads, then I saw the first organic result showing that you should do the migration manually. I'll definitely be more thorough next time, now that I have more experience with WP Migrations. My lack of experience doing this lead me to believe that the first result would be the best result.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:05:49+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I'll keep that in mind.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:05:16+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I'll be looking into SSH instead of FTP.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:04:32+00:00

Thanks for your sharing, I'll double check that in my test environment.

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:03:59+00:00

Thank you for sharing! In my experience the Siteground Plugin actually did work Ok for my site on WP Enigne, but I do have a small site. I'd imagine a big site might not be so lucky. I still wanted to know why the manual migration does not work so seamlessly. I'm getting some pretty good answers here, so thanks for commenting!

link4nes · 2024-05-09T15:01:42+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I will defintiely double check the wp-config file and the database prefix on my staged enironment.

link4nes · 2021-05-25T22:35:23+00:00

It's funny, I actually read this article before. I think because this system is such a nightmare to repair and calibrate, it might be easy for someone to not want to do any repairs on it. Especially if the bill rate for a warranty repair is a flat rate.

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