SAN DIEGO -- The California Franchise Tax Board hopes to humiliate debtors into coughing up large amounts of unpaid tax dollars, it was reported Monday.

The board publishes an annual list of the top 250 taxpayers with liened income tax debts that exceed $100,000, including individuals and companies, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. The list went online last month and included San Diegans among those at the top.

Tax collectors have tried different tactics, from sending letters to garnishing wages and seizing vehicles, stocks, bonds, bank accounts and even safe deposit boxes.

These tactics typically net a tiny fraction of what is owed -- $10.8 million this year out of the total $249 million as of October -- so state lawmakers decided public humiliation might work.

Jeffry Howard, a Del Mar businessman, owes $4.6 million in personal income taxes. He reportedly sailed off in his yacht to the Bahamas.

Howard is among California's top tax scofflaws, according to the Union-Tribune.

Another man, Don Ballantyne, is from Linda Vista. He and his wife Susanne, owe the state $2.76 million. They owe the federal government as much as $5.5 million, according to county records.

Another local on the state's list Richard Mangiarelli, a former Marine colonel and professional football player who was the go-between for J. David "Jerry" Dominelli in the mid-1980s, when Dominelli tried to get a loan from a company with ties to organized crime families in New York before fleeing to Montserrat.

Yet another is Gregory Walker, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud clients of the now-defunct San Diego firm Hampton-Porter Investment Bankers. All phone numbers listed for him in public records are out of service.