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Originally Posted by Mel
I'd have to go back and check last year's tax form but I have a half-formed memory that my state gave us a use tax table based on income. If you make this amount we're assuming you bought this much online so we're charging you this much for lost sales tax. I guess if you're a backwoods state that no store wants to set up a physical presence in the government can make an assumption that everyone is buying everything via the internet.
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OK, that sucks!
I know that this same practice has been done to waitstaff for years. The government has all kinds of onerous reporting rules, and even then they still have the nefarious "aggregate estimation method" used to determine a business's tax obligations. <irony>So nice to see that this "estimate" of taxes is now being applied to every day citizens as well.</irony>