Posted on 10/31/2007 3:22:51 AM PDT by DemforBush
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween. The new department policy was implemented after officials decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed, said Renee Mulvey, the department's spokeswoman...
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The "solution" for people who want to actually buy a pumpkin for eating is bureaucratic absurdity at its best.
Same in Michigan. Bizarre at best. Next you won’t be able to fart without buying carbon credits.
Just the bureaucratic time in filing and indexing and archiving the forms will more than offset the tax collected, but it wil; get more government union employees on the public tit.
wait until they look at bananas ...
The pumpkins are taxed here? I didn’t get charged tax on mine, unless they just ‘worked’ it into the per pound price.
Stupid.
I wonder what pumpkin pies are?
I wondered about that. What about road-use taxes for fuel that will be used in a lawnmower? Someone who is having a bad day ought to try contesting that. Where does one buy tax-free fuel for the lawnmower?
File this form with your income tax return to receive credit for off highway use
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4136.pdf
Usual practice around here is to carve the pumpkin for decoration and let it rot on the front porch while we salt and bake the seeds for a healthy snack food. How’s that taxed?
LOL You know I meant stupid as being the people who want to tax pumpkins.
‘Tard ping!
Now the gubmint is at your table asking, “you gonna eat that?”
that would be a taxable use
We grow our own pumpkins.
We also often roast the seeds. Very tasty with a cinnamon coating. Yummy.
Hey! Thanks...
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