Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 16 2012 @ 12:47 PM EDT |
>How about the very fact that not reporting and paying that sales tax is
committing tax fraud
How many individuals know the precise rate that they are supposed to
pay, for each type of product that they purchase?
Taking Philadelphia, as an example, clothes are taxable --- except when
they aren't. How many people know which clothes are not taxable, and
which are taxable? The old maxim --- expensive clothes are taxable --- is
no longer true.
In Washington state, food is not taxable, except when it is. How many
residents of that state know which categories of food are taxable? It is
not confined to prepared food, or food consumed on the premises. It can,
but need not exclude frozen food.
Goods, such as coins and currency, are taxable in some states, but not
others. How many people realize that in states where it is taxable, they
need to pay sales tax on the coins and currency they bring back from
Europe, Canada, Mexico, or other country?
By all means report, but be aware that doing so is as risky, from a legal
POV, as not doing so, because one just opened yourself up to "deliberate
concealment and failure to pay use tax", because of an inadvertent error
that one made.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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