Posted on 08/25/2011 4:24:54 PM PDT by cakid1
Using a 1935 law.. some think you may owe the state more money.
If you’ve had something shipped to your home from out of state .. you may owe the state of California more money.
The tax board is talking about collecting the so-called ‘use tax’ for anything that you’ve had delivered to your home from out of state. (They’re looking for new ways to collect taxes.)
Never heard of the ‘Use Tax?” You’re not alone.
They dug deep to get this one - under a 1935 law, Californians would owe a ‘use tax’ on any out-of-state purchases. That’s right a 1935 law.
But to collect the money, the state is considering looking at shipping records to find out what you’ve had shipped to your home. So in theory - your UPS and FedEx records could be used against you – to collect more taxes money for the state. But for now - its just talk.
Does that include the U.s. Mail?
You don't pay the "use tax" on retailers or parts assembling, they just pass the taxable liability. The retailer doesn't pay the use tax because he's going to sell it to the end user. The factory making bolts doesn't charge the final assembly plant tax because he's passing that taxable item on to the end user.
Any business staying in the People’s Communist Republic of California is suicidal. My wish is for the MILLIONS of conservatives who live there to flee to the low-populated Demon-rat states (see: Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, and make them RED.)
A better alternative, of course, would be for the people of California to wake up and realize Hussein, Jerry Brown, and RINOs like Arnold are not their friend. (Mea culpa: I thought Arnold was a good guy going against Gray Davis, but the Terminator fizzled out and become a wuss.)
Californians who do so might be in for a culture shock. The winters in those states are long and cold, and there are no burritos. On the other hand, it's hard to find a good Italian sandwich in California.
I’ve got a better idea.
They spend more money trying to enforce the damn thing than they raise with it. If they just repeal the use tax, the state will come out ahead.
“I’ve got a better idea.
They spend more money trying to enforce the damn thing than they raise with it. If they just repeal the use tax, the state will come out ahead.”
You are obviously missing the point: it employs state workers. I’d put up the obligatory picture of a hungry state worker’s kid here if I could.
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Sure, I'll give up near perfect year round weather, and move to Maine. The east coast humidity and bone chilling deep freeze weather is so attractive.
We even had an earthquake for them to make them feel at home.
But just imagine the FR withdrawal pain if Jim and John shut down the servers, loaded up the truck and fled from Beverly.
why not just repeal the 1930’s law?
given california’s referendum process this should be easy.
I wonder if there’s anything to the rumor that California wants to build a concrete wall all the way around its borders?
Ah, no, repeal of the Use Tax is DOA.
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