-------- Original Message -------- Subject: For consideration for Politech Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:22:21 -0800 From: Helft, Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Millions of tax cheats YOU DIDN'T PAY SALES TAX ON THAT AMAZON BOOK, DID YOU? By Miguel Helft
You're probably a tax cheat.
(Don't worry. No one is likely to come after you.)
If you bought a copy of ``Dude, Where's My Country?'' from Amazon.com, a Prada handbag on eBay or a pair of Bean Boots from L.L. Bean this year, chances are you've broken the law. Unless, that is, you add up all those purchases and pay 8.25 percent of the total (the sales tax rate in Santa Clara County) to the state.
You might even be a serial cheater if you've been buying from catalogs or on the Web for some time. But this year the state tax collectors will be in your face, figuratively speaking. They've drawn a line, literally, right on the state income tax forms where you're supposed to report the little known use tax. [....] http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/8093491.htm
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