[Gondring]

If you're looking to avoid paying exorbitant taxes on your cigarettes, your best course of action would be to buy your cigarettes at an Indian reservation or take a long trip down to Kentucky or North Carolina once a year to stock up on several hundred cartons.

What you're suggesting is to evade the taxes that they'd still owe, right?

[Alberta's Child]

No. The sax they owe will have to be paid -- since these purchases have already been recorded.

[zeugma]

What you're suggesting is to evade the taxes that they'd still owe, right?

Absolutely. It's a well-established and respected American tradition. These states have jacked up the taxes on cigarettes so much that it practically demands that people do everything in their power to avoid them.

[dcwusmc]

Despite what you might think, one does not OWE anything to an extortionist. And I am ALL in favor of someone buying where they can avoid the taxman. And then I would tell the taxman where he could put his bill. Simple. Theft and extortion are wring and vile no matter WHO does them and under what pretext.

[LonePalm]

I seem to remember a thread several months ago about one of the Northeast states hiring people to sit out side places like JR's in North Carolina and write down license plates for that state. The state would then send a letter demanding the taxes.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)