Oregon Smokers Beware: Web tobacco buyers targeted for back taxes by state

United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | June 23, 2006

[Just another Joe]

If you don't go there you want them to be able to tax you.

If I buy a product from a vendor in Florida, I would expect to pay the Florida tax on that item.
I would NOT expect to pay the Missouri tax on an item I bought from a vendor in Florida.

We've been over and over this now, Ray.
You know how I think and I know how you think.
Neither one of us is going to change the others mind.

The states that are doing this are doing it on a subset of people, not ALL the people. That's just plain wrong.

[Just another Joe]

To get the result you claim you want, the change would affect all taxes and essentially remove in practice the states right to raise revenue by taxing its residents.

Like I said, Missouri get's no income tax payment from me, nor do I get any income tax return from Missouri. I file a claim only because the state will come after me if I don't. It's all bull that only gets the tax preparers their money. Oh, you ARE a tax preparer, aren't you, Ray. No conflict of interest there, huh?
(BTW, I DON'T do my own taxes because the tax laws are too complex for the average person not trained to understand all the nuances that could get them in trouble. NOT the way it should be but the way it is)
Explain it any way you want to.

[Bogey]

So you're trying to tell me that the vendor doesn't pay ANY tax on this product when THEY purchase it from the manufacturer? And that tax is not included in the price to the consumer?

I can teach my dog to fetch, but I cannot explain this to you. How many ways can I say that there is no double STATE tax. When the vendor purchases from the manufacturer he is not taxed by the state.

The vendor has to PURCHASE state tax stamps from the Dept.Of Revenue..before he can sell them to a retailer. The manufacturer doesn't do the tax stamps. Individual states distribute the stamps. Taxes vary. Whatever the vendor buys and doesn't sell, he eats the state taxes. He already paid them. If someone buys a carton in any state, they have paid that states taxes. The tax stamp proves it.To have another state try to make you pay their taxes as well, is called double taxation.

[Raycpa]

I give up, my dog is smarter than you.

[Bogey]

I give up, my dog is smarter than you.
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