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To: patriot08; All

If you tobacco and have it shipped to avoid taxes, DO NOT SHIP UPS!!! Kalifornia, and probably some other states, have extorted UPS to have them report shipments from tobacco sellers to any address in the state. The state will then send you a tax bill for the products you bought.

I had a friend buying cigars from out of state, and he got a bill from the Franchise Tax Board for several thousand dollars. UPS ratted him out.


25 posted on 07/04/2012 9:39:39 PM PDT by rottndog (Be Prepared.....for what's coming AFTER America.)
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To: rottndog

We could pass a law to Tax Frilly Panties but what good could come of it? How could it be justified in reasonable folks minds?

It would just be an unfair Tax.


30 posted on 07/04/2012 10:03:57 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rottndog
have extorted UPS to have them report shipments from tobacco sellers to any address in the state. The state will then send you a tax bill for the products you bought.

I quit smoking 4 years ago but prior to that I, as an Illinois resident. was buying my cigarettes in Missouri, at the time they were $14 per carton cheaper than Illinois. I went in "Boom Land" in Benton, Missouri and bought 10 cartons, I presented the clerk with my Visa Debit card and he gave me a friendly warning that maybe I shouldn't do that, he told me that Visa debit and Visa credit had started reporting out of state purchases to the states of buyers. I paid cash instead.

It's best to use cash whenever you're trying to avoid these onerous taxes.

Several years ago, Illinois I.R.S. sent me a form to fill out voluntarily, listing all my out of state tobacco and liquor purchases. I filed it in the round file and they haven't sent me another one since. No doubt, some liberal in state government thought that might be a good idea, when they got zero returns for their efforts, they must have dumped that program.

53 posted on 07/05/2012 9:04:05 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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