[dirtboy]

It isn't just business where the tax collectors are getting too nosy. I moved to a rural township in Pennsylvania last year - and within a week I had a questionnaire in my mailbox (lord knows how they found out I was newly in the township) asking, among other things, my occupation and where I had moved from. PA has an occupation tax that is only charged by a few townships, and townships that levy an income tax cannot collect occupation tax. Since the township where I live collects income tax, I called up the collector and told her that she didn't need to gather that information. She said I had to provide it. I said I wasn't going to provide it because the township legally couldn't collect the tax in the first place. And I told her I wasn't providing information as to where I moved from, and she said I didn't have to provide that - had she insisted, I would have asked her to cite the PA Code that authorized her to gather the info.

A lot of this battle is standing up to these creeps where you can.

[AAABEST]

Much respect for you for taking a stand. It's a small thing, and it would have been easy to just fill out the stupid form.

Good for you brother.

[MineralMan]

"It isn't just business where the tax collectors are getting too nosy. I moved to a rural township in Pennsylvania last year - and within a week I had a questionnaire in my mailbox (lord knows how they found out I was newly in the township) asking, among other things, my occupation and where I had moved from. PA has an occupation tax that is only charged by a few townships, and townships that levy an income tax cannot collect occupation tax. "

An occupation tax? That's strange, I think. I've never heard of such a thing. Income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, but an occupation tax? Do different occupations get charged different amounts? I'm gonna go look on Google for more info about this.