Most People Are Supposed To Pay This Tax. Almost Nobody Actually Pays It.

National Public Radio's Planet Money ^ | April 16, 2013 | Chana Joffe-Walt

[RobertClark]

I actually paid mine. I file form CU-1 with AR DFA on a monthly basis. I’m a stickler for adherence to rules - afterall, paying taxes is a patriotic duty.

[RobertClark]

I didn’t find “use tax” in the Constitution, its actually a sales tax and it is not MY job to collect sales taxes for the government

And yet you would, I'll bet, argue against the imposition of sales taxes for all online purchases.

[bravo whiskey]

maryland is the same way. they raise the taxes and people buy stuff in PA, VA, DEL, WVA. just a nice sat day trip with the family.

[bravo whiskey]

believe that is the congressional medal of freedom. giving it to a tax cheat is yet another degradayion of American values and traditions by libtards in general and POSOTUS specifically.

[econjack]

I would have to pay over 7,000 in taxes and currently with the current deductions I only pay 1,500.

And that's why you have a tax code no one understands...everyone wants their special deductions. Perhaps we need to raise the deduction to $20K per person. All I'm saying is that those deductions were put in their to distort the natural allocation of resources. As an economist, I would prefer a "neutral" tax when it comes to the allocation of resources.

As it stands right now, 51% of the people in this country have "nothing in the game"...they're free loading. You and I are paying for some idiot in Cleveland to have a "free" cell phone, as if a cell phone is a "right" that a freeloader gets from living off the system. That's just wrong.

[dalereed]

My biggest bitch is the earned income tax credit!

Those people should be cut off and put out into the street to die!

[GeronL]

I am against taxes in general

[Eagles6]

Yeah. Our PRESIdENT doesn't know the difference between the 2. Doesn't know what a Navy Corpsman is, never shot a Daisy BB gun and never held an actual job, yet was elected to the most powerful position in the world.

I think we deserve what we get.

[a fool in paradise]

I didn’t find “use tax” in the Constitution, its actually a sales tax and it is not MY job to collect sales taxes for the government

I don't even see how this works (in my state that has no state income tax form). Besides my state (Texas) has different sales tax pricing for different cities (Houston is 8.25% but some neighboring communities are lower, the state itself collects 6.25%).

http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/local/

So if Texas (or some other state collects variable rates) do you pay the "local" rate to where you live? What about if you buy from a cheaper community in the state? Do you have to send your local community tax assessor the extra 2%?

[palmer]

Here in VIrginia the base rate goes to the state. The counties and incorporated cities can add their own surtax which goes back to them. The use tax is only the base rate and does to the state (locality gets nothing).

[Blood of Tyrants]

Should we feel guilty for not paying even MORE taxes?