Posted on 10/18/2019 3:00:13 AM PDT by Libloather
Never underestimate the government’s ability to be terrible. Let’s see what’s happening in the great state of New Jersey, shall we?
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Being on display embarrasses the pumpkins.
>>For our house both. Seeds are eaten.<<
A lot of people in rural areas use REAL pumpkin to make pumpkin pie (and yes, toast the seeds).
Now what NJ?
“N.J. will be the laughing stock of the nation”.
We are already a laughing stock but there are probably other states that are more of a laughing stock.
MAYBE!!!
O—what if you eat the insides, but use the remainder for decoration?
How will they know if residents don’t use the pumpkins for food? I think the only way to charge the sales tax is if the pumpkins are made inedible before sale.
Or what about a picture of a pumpkin?
You file form 1099-PUMPNJ with the proportional amount of seeds by weight used as a credit against sales tax paid. The form requires the gooey stuff inside be sent as supporting documentation.
If there’s no sales tax on food then don’t tax the punkin. A punkin is food. Doesn’t matter if I eat it or not, it is food. So is yellow squash, that most vile and slimy plant that some consider food. Dry the punkin seeds in the oven. They are delicious.
There are some pretty dumb states out there.
“There should be no sales tax on that new $35,000 car, Mr. Toyota Salesman. I’m going to be eating it for Thanksgiving dinner — honestly.”
And do you keep your Pumpkin sales receipt as proof of paying sales tax for seven years in case you are audited?
See? This is the perfect example of why politicians suck.
I’m a Tax guy. I get this. I get the rationale and the law behind it. That said, this is completely, and utterly unenforceable. Yet they wasted time thinking about it and issuing a release.
Short of sending pumpkin patrols around to see who has a pumpkin on their porch, how would they know? And even if they actually PAID someone to do that, then what?
What if I leave the pumpkin out there until Halloween and then make a pie out of it? Is it still taxable?
Absolute pathetic farce.
NOT.
However, the DOT would probably say that you should apportion the cost by weight.
This is what happens when a state is so in debt that they need to look at sucking every available penny from their residents. No idea, regardless of how stupid or impractical is off the table. I remember some years ago when the NJ government figured out that people were making untold billions of dollars (sarc) selling stuff at flea/antique markets. They promptly dispatched teams of tax collectors out to flea markets on SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS ( can you say overtime) to make sure everyone set up had a registered, up to date NJ tax ID number and that they were collecting and reporting the sales tax income. I seriously doubt the income the state got from this effort exceeded the cost of sending personnel out to collect it. I would not be surprised if some NJ Division of Taxation employee got a bonus for the “fantastic” idea.
Our new prisoner swallows hard and whispers “failure to pay pumpkin tax”.
Sadly, no. I got an alert from the Division on it if you can believe that.
Is there a NJ tax on carved ICE?
how does taxman see - pumpkins for squirrel feed?
We elected this nut job on the promises of protecting illegal immigrant criminals, getting the rest of the population high on weed so they wouldn’t care and taxing the hell out of everyone else ala Bernie Sanders “free shit for all” programs.
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