Or like Marc Anthony, you are asked to sing at the DNC national convention.
Posted on 04/16/2013 9:25:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The majority of Americans have now filed their taxes. And the majority of Americans have done so incorrectly.
There is one mistake, in particular, that lots of people made: They bought tax-free things online or in another state — and they failed to pay tax on their purchase in their home state.
It's called a use tax. As far as I can tell, accountants and tax lawyers are some of the only people who pay it.
Forty-five states have a use tax. About 1.6 percent of the taxpayers in those 45 states actually pay the use tax. So I figured I'd ask a representative of that particular 1.6 percent to explain this thing most of us are supposed to be doing every year.
"Its a lot of fun," Daniel Gottfried, a lawyer at Rogin Nassau in Connecticut, told me. "I go through my credit card receipts ... page by page."
He finds something he bought from Amazon last May for $22.98. He didn't get charged sales tax on the purchase, which means he owes the state of Connecticut $1.40 for that purchase.
Gottfried spends hours adding up all these charges in a spreadsheet. He not only has to find all his online purchases; he has to figure out which online sellers already charged him sales tax, and which didn't.
He owes the use tax for the online retailers that didn't already charge him. But, this being the tax code, there are exceptions for everything from college textbooks to firearm safety devices....
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
It will be a moot point now that pretty much tax-free purchases online are about to go the way of the Dodo Bird.
Register your legacy firearms.
Haven’t been able to buy anything online here in California for some time now without the seller adding California sales tax, no matter what state the sale was made in.
Tax avoidance is a patrotic duty.
More more more that’s all these POS proggys can say.
I’ll jump right on that.
check’s in the mail......
Let’s just dump the Tax Code and replace it with a flat tax of 17% (Milton Friedman’s rate) after a $10,000 per person deduction. The IRS Tax code would be 1 page instead of 66,000 pages. And if I hear Obozo or any other person say: “The rich get to take advantage of all the loopholes.” Gees, people...who do you think put those loopholes there in the first place? It’s the same people who make asinine statements like this and we elected them. And, Mr. Buffet, if you really don’t think you’re paying enough in taxes, open your checkbook and write a check for an amount that makes you feel warm and fuzzy and then STFU. The rest of us are having a pretty hard time of it out here without you idiots flying off at the mouth.
Or like Marc Anthony, you are asked to sing at the DNC national convention.
This is the way they used to justify your inheirent criminal background so they can send you to the Gulag at any time for any reason.
I hope you didn’t forget to write off all the taxes already paid on salestax, cigarette tax, booze tax, &c. Oh and 0bozocare... is it a TAX? or a Fine? Who cares, you are going to TO THE GULAG!
Fixed it.
And then you get the privilege of paying the Gulag Tax.
Well, the gov’t could always encourage your kids to self report....
Not the biggest Ayn Rand fan, but this quote from Atlas Shrugged was dead on:
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be
much easier to deal with.
...or report to the family doctor how many guns are in Mom and Dad's household.
We apparently live in interesting times.
Your flat tax with only a 10k exclusion taxes the crap out of me and we wouldn’t have enough to live on after taxes!
I would have to pay over 7,000 in taxes and currently with the current deductions I only pay 1,500.
The amount of taxes people pay are already over the top.
The amount of taxes people pay are already over the top.
Amazon sent me a statement of my online purchases for 2012 and reminded me that I owed my state sales tax on that amount.
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