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State to offer sales tax amnesty for online shoppers [IL]
AP ^ | 12.13.10

Posted on 12/14/2010 12:53:09 AM PST by Thebaddog

Edited on 12/14/2010 4:50:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

December 13, 2010 8:49 AM | No Comments SPRINGFIELD -- The state of Illinois wants residents to pay sales taxes on all of the gifts they buy.


(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobreakingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: democrats; economy; illinois; liberalfascism; taxes
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Sweet. They passed a new law to collect online sales taxes back to 2004. How would you even begin to figure this one out ? This is really a concern to me.
1 posted on 12/14/2010 12:53:14 AM PST by Thebaddog
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Maybe they think they can collect on large items like TVs, computers, and other expensive electronica.


2 posted on 12/14/2010 1:03:16 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Thebaddog

That was my first thought too. In order to go back to 2004 and every item you ordered on the internet would be daunting and a huge job. There would be no way that you could honestly complete this without either ensuring that you over estimate or you under estimate. Either way, you will not get it right.


3 posted on 12/14/2010 1:04:22 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Thebaddog

Think any one saved their receipts? This is one law that ain’t gonna see a dime of money for the IL treasury.


4 posted on 12/14/2010 1:05:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Thebaddog

Pitch forks, torches, tar and a decent supply of feathers would seem to be in order.


5 posted on 12/14/2010 1:07:18 AM PST by The Cajun
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To: Thebaddog

As if Illinois didn’t already have enough Criminals. LOL


6 posted on 12/14/2010 1:10:01 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: The Cajun

Don’t forget rope!


7 posted on 12/14/2010 1:11:11 AM PST by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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To: Thebaddog

Sick. And they try to sell it as “amnesty.”

Disgusting, greedy, despicable bastards.


8 posted on 12/14/2010 1:17:09 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: Thebaddog

This could easily serve as a perfect example of the idiocy of the political mentality. On the other hand, there are so many examples these days that one can pick and choose. Government hacks, self-important bureaucrats, and organizational control nuts, tax-and-spenders, closet communists, and what have you are spinning out of control, and no one in a position of authority seems to care or be willing to do anything about it. Under Obama, the United States has become something more reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the bad old days of the Cold War than of the free nation into which one was born.


9 posted on 12/14/2010 1:17:38 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: napscoordinator

UPS and FedEx know!


10 posted on 12/14/2010 1:19:14 AM PST by Carley (ISRAEL.......NOT SO ALONE!!!)
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To: Thebaddog

Simple, there were no sales prior to this year.

Then delete all of your online sales records... and claim it was a virus (Stuxnex, anyone?).

And thus, the state won’t have any records one way or the other. If they push it, you can ask for their records, for yours are now ‘lost’.

Care to guess whether they have your records? (I think not.)


11 posted on 12/14/2010 1:19:35 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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This isn’t anything really new; one was supposed to pay a “use tax” to the state, but few did. If you did pay this tax, it would count.


12 posted on 12/14/2010 1:30:14 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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Maybe the State Police can set up road blocks, to charge incoming tax tariffs.

Taxes are such wonderful things to commerce! /s

13 posted on 12/14/2010 1:46:26 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, said the Lord God of hosts.)
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I am from Tennessee, but have not been in the USSA for the last seven years.
I never have, and would not even know how to pay sales tax that was not collected by the seller, online or offline.
How many states have consumers filling out sales tax returns?

In Tennessee, I filled out quarterly returns as a seller, and I was to report any items that I bought for personal use, but there were no sales tax returns for consumers.


14 posted on 12/14/2010 1:47:24 AM PST by AlexW
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Get one of those prepaid cards to use. The states are getting records from major banks, not prepaids.


15 posted on 12/14/2010 1:52:58 AM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Thebaddog

Illinois has nobody to blame but themselves for the people they elect - or allow to assume office fraudulently.


16 posted on 12/14/2010 2:04:28 AM PST by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: The Cajun

a stout rope is easier to handle ....


17 posted on 12/14/2010 2:05:42 AM PST by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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Pitch forks, torches, tar and a decent supply of feathers would seem to be in order.

Yes! You're going to see regular folks adopting tactics of leftist punks. They'll trash government offices, overturn and burn government cars, and create enough mayhem to put real fear into these greedy bureaucrats until government backs off. Enough is enough! The Revolt is coming.

18 posted on 12/14/2010 2:09:18 AM PST by roadcat
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"Department of Revenue spokeswoman Sue Hofer "

There's a work fill desk job that can be terminated right now.

Since when does every gobmint dept need a "media spokesperson"...?

19 posted on 12/14/2010 2:21:11 AM PST by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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"Department of Revenue spokeswoman Sue Hofer "

There's a work fill desk job that can be terminated right now.

Since when does every gobmint dept need a "media spokesperson"...?

20 posted on 12/14/2010 2:21:15 AM PST by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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