I’ve been an indirect tax specialist for 15+ years, and your elected representatives (apparently, since I don’t know what state you’re in) voted in a sales and use tax scheme. I don’t know what state you’re in, but if your purchase would have been subject to sales tax had it been transacted in your state, if you knowingly do not file a use tax return to report the tax on items you imported or had imported into the state and on which you have not paid a sales or use tax to another jurisdiction, you legally owe the tax.
The same is true for barter. Just because you bartered for a transaction does not mean there are no tax consequences, although your state may have an exemption for an “occasional” sale.
What you are describing is using cash and the internet to *evade* taxation. Evade = illegal.
While I am 100% behind tax reduction, I am not for violating the law to evade paying what is legally due. I am for the legalization of some controlled substances. That doesn’t mean I support criminals who sell the stuff illegally.
Exactly! The Founding Fathers were 100% in favor of paying legally due taxes to whatever lawless, Despotic thug or Fascistic government happened to have the whip hand at the time...