Is this considered Income Tax Fraud?

The FTB knows if he's been collecting unemployment benefits from EDD. If he lies about that, they already know that it's a lie so there's nothing for you to report, whether it rises to the level of fraud or not. The authorities are only interested in information that they do not have access to and could not reasonably discover on their own. Your post hasn't revealed anything relevant to tax fraud, nor has it revealed anything that the FTB would not be able to figure out should they wish to know.

Not paying an established tax debt is NOT tax fraud. Tax fraud involves making false statements about income or expenses, often combined with active measures to hide taxable income from detection, in order to falsely reduce the amount of tax that is due. Nothing in your post would indicate that this is the case.

At most he's failing to pay a legitimate debt and in the US that is NOT a crime. His debt will continue to climb as penalties and interest are tacked on. At some point he'll be forced to seek a job for survival and at that point the FTB will swoop in and levy his wages to force repayment of what he owes. Either that or he will wind up homeless on the streets.

If he's collecting unemployment benefits -- your post does not say that he is, only that he told the FTB that he is -- and is not actually seeking employment the odds are good that he will be caught when they audit his unemployment claims. The odds of an eventual audit are high if he's been collecting for more than a few months. When he's caught, he'll be forced to repay any illegally claimed benefits and future benefits will be cut off. That will probably motivate him to get off of his @$$ and find work, particularly if it comes down to a matter of survival.

The information is still too general and vague.

You don't know if he files his taxes since it wasn't stated so you can't assume he's cheating on his taxes by not paying reporting the income and not paying the income taxes.

He appears that he may have committed fraud on his unemployment claims but that's through the state (i.e. he quit his previous job instead of being fired).

As long as a person supposed claims to look for work, then the state unemployment agency will have to take his word on it.

If you do plan on reporting your relative (Be careful!), then you need to get the facts correct first.

Good luck!

The son's mother should be able to report him. If she can prove her son is not being supported by the father than that's 1 lie that he will have to face. If she also happen to mention everything else then if they do decide to investigate then he will need to provide proof. The mother should go to court and ask for child support. The fact the father mentions he supports kid and her asking for money will set off an alarm and give her more of a leg to stand on. You reporting this will not do much unless you have proof. good luck.

if he is claiming unemployment and receiving it apparently the former employer complied and allowed the unemployment to be granted

if he is getting unemployment and not really seeking employment his unemployment should be denied but this is not fraud(if he were getting unemployment and working too that would be fraud)

his parents are in the position to report him to child welfare based on his negligence and subjecting the child to unhealthful conditions, but it is their home and they could be putting themselves in a bad position

from what you are saying the parents should be claiming the grandchild as a dependent and the couch potato as a qualifying relative(there are several requirements that have to be met)

i do no longer comprehend approximately California regulation on the subject of tutorial training value exams. This sounds like something the exertions Board (state and federal) could prefer to look into, as that's frequently a criminal offense to for an corporation to require an worker pay the corporation for the priviledge of working for that corporation. Relative or no relative. And if the worker is "returning" better than 13,000 US money to the corporation, there's a federal "present tax" due.

Not really income tax fraud - he will be taxed on his unemployment benefits. But, it might be unemployment insurance fraud because in order to receive benefits he has to be both willing and able to work.