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[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Sharkey" <eric at lisaneric.org>

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been told this many times as if I am involved in some large
> > tax evasion scheme.
> 
> Sorry. I didn't mean to sound accusatory.

And you didn't; I think Tom's overreacting, myself.  :-)

> > I pay ALL of my taxes every year. Yes, you are correct and
> > I am aware of this.
> 
> Many people aren't aware of this, as the collection of this tax is
> largely unenforced. I know that my own personal accounting isn't
> rigorous enough to know what my actual out of state purchases for the
> year were. The state of New York made sure that I paid the use tax
> when I bought a car in New Jersey, but neither state seems to be
> tracking small purchases. Now that I'm back in NJ again, I buy a lot
> of stuff from New Egg guilt free because the tax issues are handled
> for me.

My experience is that if you go to the mall, and you ask 50 people

"Were you aware that when you buy something from another state, by mail 
or over the Internet, and there's "no tax", that you're supposed to keep
track of all that stuff, and file a Use Tax report with your own state
at the end of the year, and pay *them* the tax?"

you *might* get one person who says yes.  Maybe two.

Of the twenty you get yes from in a thousand?  Maybe one or two of those
actually do it.

So it's not at all an unreasonable assumption to make.

Cheers,
-- jra
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