To: Zon
"If you have a bill for $10,000 for cigarette taxes, you're a dealer, you're not just smoking," Bloomberg said. How does New York know what somebodies cigarette bill is?
12 posted on
01/14/2005 9:21:47 PM PST by
Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
Thats what I was wondering. How would they get information like that?
13 posted on
01/14/2005 9:22:41 PM PST by
AirForceMom
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To: Graybeard58
Probaly some provision in the Patriot Act. Second hand smoke is a form of terrorism, ya know.
To: Graybeard58
How does New York know what somebodies cigarette bill is?
They ask the big online sellers of cigarettes to give them printouts of purchasers in a particular zip code.
19 posted on
01/14/2005 9:26:11 PM PST by
kingu
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To: Graybeard58
How does New York know what somebodies cigarette bill is? You would have to be quite the chain smoker to run up a tax bill like that.
Suppose the state sales tax on a pack of cigarettes is $2.50 per pack and the tax bill is for one year. You would have to smoke about 28 packs a day to run up that kind of a tax bill. Over two years it would be 14 packs a day.
Common sense says that someone with that kind of a tax bill is bringing them in to sell.
52 posted on
01/14/2005 10:05:13 PM PST by
BJungNan
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To: Graybeard58
The seller must be reporting it. Shades of Mexice, where the
vendors used to report cigarette sales to the authorities
at the border--who would take (steal) them. They didn't
report wetbacks.
174 posted on
01/15/2005 9:19:17 AM PST by
RWCon
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