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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Nov 30 2005
Silly Sales Tax Scenarios Shame Sacramento Suits
As if things didn't already cost too much and taxes didn't keep going up, now it's supposedly up to Californian consumers to keep track of the sales tax we pay and to determine whether we've paid enough sales tax to California for items we've purchased outside the state but which will be used and enjoyed inside the state. The math with which it would take to do this is far beyond my capability. And I think it might be cheaper for me to hire someone to keep track of it all and then deduct the cost of having them do it. I also think that the occasional big ticket items purchased by Californians will be claimed a lot more often now on state tax forms.
And another thing. Do I really want to pay more taxes to hire more bureaucrats to sit around and calculate all this from Sacramento and then also pay more taxes to send a sales tax bounty hunter out to collect $6.40 in sales tax from a pair of boots I might have paid cash for in Oregon? Good luck to the powers that be in making this work on a practical basis.
posted at: 12:00 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
As if things didn't already cost too much and taxes didn't keep going up, now it's supposedly up to Californian consumers to keep track of the sales tax we pay and to determine whether we've paid enough sales tax to California for items we've purchased outside the state but which will be used and enjoyed inside the state. The math with which it would take to do this is far beyond my capability. And I think it might be cheaper for me to hire someone to keep track of it all and then deduct the cost of having them do it. I also think that the occasional big ticket items purchased by Californians will be claimed a lot more often now on state tax forms.
And another thing. Do I really want to pay more taxes to hire more bureaucrats to sit around and calculate all this from Sacramento and then also pay more taxes to send a sales tax bounty hunter out to collect $6.40 in sales tax from a pair of boots I might have paid cash for in Oregon? Good luck to the powers that be in making this work on a practical basis.
posted at: 12:00 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
