Tony Vazquez: 2025 Annual (amendment) Form 700

Context Amendments

Amends an earlier statement

This is an amendment. The original stays on file; what changed is in the amendment itself.

What to check

Compare with the original statement for the same year.

Rule: An amended statement

How this rule works

Worth a look Lobbying

Lobbying reports name $245 in gifts to them in 2025 from 1 source this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF TAXPAYER ADVOCATES $245 (dinner).

What to check

Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
Whether it's on the statement under another name.
That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).

CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF TAXPAYER ADVOCATES $245

2025-12-11 DINNER at THE RITZ-CARLTON LAGUNA NIGUEL $245 (of $735 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report

Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement

“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Tony Vazquez: 2025 Annual (amendment) statement

Findings

Amends an earlier statement

Lobbying reports name $245 in gifts to them in 2025 from 1 source this statement doesn't list

Schedule D · Gifts 1