I owe a California Use Tax? WTF?!!!

[kaylasdad99]

Oregon = the only one that I can't really find any offsetting, obvious reason for being able to afford no sales tax.

ISTR a couple of years ago hearing about a federal program that had the U.S. govt. making some sizeable annual contributions to Oregon's general fund, to make up for revenues lost due to logging restrictions within the state.

So, before that program, royalties from the timber industry? And when the program sunsets, -- fiscal apocalypse?

WAG.

 

[Shot From Guns]

Apparently you're a retard, so let me spell the insult out:

You paid my mother to teach you how to gobble cock and suck on balls. You failed to hire her to also teach you the basics of how to deal with sales tax on purchases from out-of-state vendors.

 

[Rick]

I almost guarantee your accountant is making you pay jack shit. When I worked as a tax preparer in CA it wasn't something they even suggested we ask, and accountants I know don't ask. Besides, how would he know how much you should've paid at Amazon without asking. I am surprised in this thread that people actually report it, just as I am by your OP and the letter.

MY CPA has an entry for this on my tax organizer every year. I always put an entry there.
As far as why people report it, there is an old saying in California "You can fuck with the IRS, but do not fuck with the franchise tax board. Those guys are evil."
And I first heard that long before prop 13, back when the state had money. Now that they are broke, FTB is EVIL.

 

[mhendo]

I'm sure other people have noticed it and wondered about it too.

If they're curious (which i kind of doubt) they are welcome to ask. If they're not raging, dishonest assholes i might favor them with an answer. You, on the other hand, can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

So, come on. Be a sport, eh? Tell us all why you're such an asshole? Pretty please with sugar on top?

Yawn.

 

[TimeWinder]

Oregon = the only one that I can't really find any offsetting, obvious reason for being able to afford no sales tax.

Relatively small population needing services, a very high business personal property tax in many counties, a midrange personal income tax, and relatively high property taxes. Plus, many services get bumped to counties, which have their own revenue generation capabilities. Compare and contrast with Washington state, which is the opposite: high sales tax, no personal income tax, and very tight state control.

But mostly it's that Oregon's legislative system makes it very, very hard to create or raise taxes -- you basically need the population to agree to tax themselves more on the ballot. It's unfortunate, really, since the population of the state increases by a third or so in the summer due to tourists -- a sales tax would allow said tourists to pay the residents taxes for them. Oregon has been running at a level of services many other states would find inadequate for years (and ranks very low on state tax burden). However, I've never heard as much whining about taxes as I did when I lived there -- there's sort of a cultural level of resistance to taxation there that I've never seen elsewhere.

 

[Yeticus Rex]

I just wanna know one thing.......

Was the saliva produced during cockgobbling and ballsucking subject to use tax or was the tax already included if she was a local supplier?

 

[NAF1138]

I just wanna know one thing.......

Was the saliva produced during cockgobbling and ballsucking subject to use tax or was the tax already included if she was a local supplier?

You know you have worked in accounting for too long when you come up with a really really funny joke response to this question and then realize that no one who doesn't work in accounting would get it.

 

[BlinkingDuck]

This is fairly standard for any state which imposes a sales tax. You are responsible for reporting and submitting any Cali taxes due on out of state purchases. Nobody actually does it, mind you, but that is pretty much the law in any sales-taxing state.

Ohhhh yes they do.

If, for example, you cross state lines to buy something that is not taxed in that state but is in yours...do not stop at the first store you come across but head further in. It is not uncommon for your state to get sales records from that store (near the state lines) then come after you for not paying sales tax.

{Aunt was hit up this way a couple years ago for a clothes shopping trip}

 

[Yeticus Rex]

Awww......come on.....someone here will probably get it.

 

[Fear Itself]

The State of Massachusetts sued a tire retailer that had stores in NH and MA to collect MA sales tax on MA residents who crossed the border to buy tires in NH. They lost.

 

[Shot From Guns]

Ah yes, because we've had such luck getting things enacted that have been proven to work just fine in European countries, like socialized medicine, more vacation days, decriminaled drugs, and same-sex marriages.

ETA: There's also such a thing as a good negative example, whereby we can clarify constitutional protections in response to particularly retarded changes in state laws.

 

[Starving Artist]

Ah yes, because we've had such luck getting things enacted that have been proven to work just fine in European countries, like socialized medicine..

Why, yes, things are certainly working out peachy in...

Oh, wait!

Guess not.

 

[magellan01]

But maybe the problem is that my racism exists in your head, and not in reality. I repeat:

I can't dig into their slimy little minds to prove anything--I can only offer conjecture. And the main difference seems to be that these aren't (to them) Europeans.

Of course you don't come out and say you hate niggers, or all Arabs should be lynched.

Of course not. Because that's not that what I think. Now if you really could read minds, you'd know that. But you can't, so you just make up what in your little mind just must be true.

You don't like to think of yourself as a racist, after all. But your disgusting positions betray you.

Fact is, I know I'm not a racist, but you like trying to use the word so you can conveniently discount a counter position. Sorry, son, that's weak. You don't like my position, therefore you jump to it's "disgusting". What are you nine years old?

You think that we should treat all Muslims as some kind of second-class citizens (without ever actually getting specific, despite multiple requests);

You really should read my posts. You know, the words that actually appear on the screen.

you think that Arizona has the right idea about how to deal with immigration (make all the Mexican-looking ones carry papers).

They do have the right idea. But as one should expect from you, you completely mischaracterize the law. Try reading it, douchebag. Who the hell do you think you are, Barack Obama? Eric Holder?

You're a racist, and anyone with two neurons to rub together can see it.

Guess that means we can ignore your analysis. Thanks for playing, though. Now, why don't you stop with this hijack and go into the other thread and man up. Here's where you left off:

I can't dig into their slimy little minds to prove anything--I can only offer conjecture. And the main difference seems to be that these aren't (to them) Europeans.

 

[kywawa]

no choice,i think..