Unwelcome Surprise on State Income Tax Forms, New York

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[The Mayor]

Unwelcome Surprise on State Income Tax Forms
WBEN Newsroom - Wednesday, December 10, 2003 08:58 AM

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - As New York grapples with budget gaps, it is apparently looking to you to help plug them.

On the state income tax form you'll fill out for the 2003 tax year, you'll be expected to estimate how much
sales tax you avoided paying by shopping on-line, out-of-state, or on the reservation.

If you failed to save your receipts all the year, the state will include a chart with estimated taxes you should have paid.

[The Mayor]

The State wants you to be honest and claim anything you may have bought at an Indian Reservation, out of state or online.

They are even talking about monitoring the reservations and taking down license plates. Big Brother??

We must remember folks, The NYState Assembly gave us the largest Tax increase in NYState history and they are all up for re-election this coming November.

Vote them all out!

[The Mayor]

Bump for you!

[commish]

Any person who puts anything other than ZERO in this column is an unmitigated moron.

[hobbes1]

Hmmmmmm...Since i Live in NJ, and work in NY, does that mean, they will offer me a rebate for all of the Sales tax I OVERPAID by not waiting until I got home to Shop??????

If they keep this crap up I'll start paying in pennies.

[The Mayor]

Ping!

[Madame Dufarge]

Ping.

The noose tightens.

[The Mayor]

Good Point!

[PetroniDE]

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - As New York grapples with budget gaps, it is apparently looking to you to help plug them.

Here is a piece of advice. FREE OF CHARGE !

CUT SPENDING !

[The Mayor]

NY Ping

[The Mayor]

They even wany to audit your credit card receipts

[Puppage]

how much sales tax you avoided paying

I avoided NOTHING. Tax wasn't requested/asked for, etc. Therefore, I avoided NOTHING.

Of course ALL the NY democRATS will be paying, right? What with their thinking they don't pay enough taxes to begin with.

[The Mayor]

Ping!

[mvpel]

Actually, the tax was required, it's just that out-of-state companies aren't required to collect it. It's called a "use tax" and most states, aside from my new home state of New Hampshire, have them.

Living in New Hampshire, we're going to save an estimated $5,000 a year in sales tax over the 8.25% we were paying in San Jose, California, not to mention the lower cost of just about everything we buy.

[Puppage]

Actually, the tax was required, it's just that out-of-state companies aren't required to collect it.

Technically, you're right. I know it's been on the books for years. However, I myself have never heard of anyone ever actually paying....have you? And, the local Priest doesn't count.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

One reason why NOT to move to New York!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Here is a piece of advice. FREE OF CHARGE ! CUT SPENDING !

Won't work!!

Too many of Dem bums!

[The Mayor]

From a Friend (Mike)

Sure you can trust the government, just ask an Indian!

I think I will run for the Assembly in the 144th district.
Sam Hoyt needs to go down!
We need someone to run in every district across the state!!

[freekitty]

Hitlery and her kind need more money to live the American Dream while the little folks submit to slavery.

[yoe]

You do not have to tell the state anything other than pay your normal taxes, what you do on the Internet is your business and yours alone as long as you are not breaking some law. Big Brother is gaining ground each and every day - those who let the free choice to smoke be taken away - those who are letting signs of the cross and other Christian symbols be taken away from them but allowing the Jewish and Islamic symbols to stay are not standing up for their rights as Americans. Those who let the sacrament of marriage be used for gay marriages are hypocrites. Those people are giving up freedom for Socialism. Wake Up! Political Correctness has taken hold of our young from day one in school through college, it is time to stop this insanity.

[The Mayor]

Vote against the incumbent Politicans-!

I think I will run....