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Yeah, lots of people trying to weasle out of paying tax on car deals......

yeah how about this one, in CT you can only take a tax credit for the property tax on one vehicle, or two if your married .... so if you have more then one car per person your screwed again.
 
i paid $150 for my 1986 chevy truck..it had no rockers and needed the fenders replaced....i paid $250 in sales tax when i registered it...

unfortunately, the border jumping to save on sales tax doesnt work with cars in MA, you pay sales tax when you register it.
if its a private sale you pay on 'book value' if its from a dealer you pay on what the dealer states you paid.
i say 'book value' because i have no idea where the state gets these values from, they dont match anything like KBB or NADA prices.


i love that when i buy a state vehile at auction and it is sold to me by the commonwealth of Mass (the same people that run the registry), they still charge me tax based on 'book value' not what i paid them for the vehicle.
 
Yeah, border jumping doesn't work in CT either. You will ALWAYS pay for the tax at the DMV. I've purchased two cars from PA and my mom purchased one from NY.

Both dealers gaves us temp plates for that state and I drove it home and around CT until it expired (about 30 days). When you go for the registration, they use the Bill of Sale for the state sales tax.
 
I wasn't talking about just cars.
And there are a lot of people that still avoid the car tax by establishing fake residences and stuff like that.
I think NH has gotten better about cracking down and elminating it, but there are definitely some sneaky things that go down in the name of tax evasion.
 
Well we all know theres's way too much waste in government spending. Abd a lot of unnecessary government regulations and programs.

Amen brother. I'm so tired of welfare cases. I went to buy a pack of smokes yesterday. 1839 lights. They are cheap, cheap cigarettes. Only 5.24 per pack. The woman in front of me buys a pack of Marlboro reds for 7.50, and pays for it with her EBT food stamp card. This is what my taxes pay for? So some gutter rat can smoke high dollar cigarettes while I pay for my own cheapies?

If I can save a few hundred bucks buy doctoring a bill of sale, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
 
They're not using Food Stamps. They're using the welfare portion of their EBT card. EBT cards have two processing methods: FS and Welfare.
 
They're not using Food Stamps. They're using the welfare portion of their EBT card. EBT cards have two processing methods: FS and Welfare.

well yeah obviously since cigs =/= food, but still, I'm surprised there aren't stiill restrictions on what the welfare money can buy.
 
well yeah obviously since cigs =/= food, but still, I'm surprised there aren't stiill restrictions on what the welfare money can buy.

IIRC, I think it's one of those things that falls under "unreasonable search and seizure." Basically, your privacy can't be breached on how you spend the money. At least that's the understanding I have come to after hearing maniacal Democraps telling me how welfare is such a good idea.
 
IIRC, I think it's one of those things that falls under "unreasonable search and seizure." Basically, your privacy can't be breached on how you spend the money. At least that's the understanding I have come to after hearing maniacal Democraps telling me how welfare is such a good idea.
But how can it be search and seizure if you stop them BEFORE they buy it?
 
But how can it be search and seizure if you stop them BEFORE they buy it?
I found a good writeup by CBPP (I guess this is a lobbyist group, but no matter) on the reasoning behind preventing limitations on food stamps and, by extension, welfare cards. I'd love to see limitations as much as you but I don't see the economic cost outweighing the benefit.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2022
Q: Should food stamp benefits be limited to purchases of "nutritious" foods?

A: Limiting food stamp benefits to the purchase of "nutritious" foods would entail establishing a controversial and cumbersome regulatory process to determine which foods qualify and which do not. Such a process would inevitably be accompanied by intensive lobbying by various food companies and segments of the food industry seeking inclusion of their products on the approved list. The likely result would be a list of acceptable foods heavily affected by political influence. In addition, every time that a new food product came onto the market, it would have to be evaluated and added to either the "approved" or the "not approved" list, with those determinations potentially subject to dispute by the food's manufacturer. Retailers would have to mark all their shelves to let recipients know what they could and could not buy. Finally —- and of particular importance —- such a restriction would require check-out clerks to sort recipients' food purchases at the check-out stand, which would likely cause longer waits in check-out lines and require many food stores to add more check-out lanes and clerks. (EBT systems would provide no help with this task since those systems, like credit cards, only record the amount of each purchase, not what items were bought.) For this reason, the Food Marketing Institute, which represents grocers across the country, has strenuously opposed similar proposals in the past.
Restricting food stamps to food items is easy to enforce at the store level, but I have a feeling only the largest nationwide stores (Walmart, etc) would be willing to enhance their point of sale system to accommodate any further restrictions. Smaller stores and chains would demand more incentives and cash from the government to build the changes and timelessly maintain the daily updating approvals feed, if they bothered to even keep EBT. Even smaller stores would demand fancy POS systems (and fast data lines) handed out from the government to handle the changes, since dialup credit card machines don't send out purchase information. At that point, you've got EBT cards phoning home for every transaction and querying a list of approvals from a massive government database containing every UPC code in existence.

Even if somehow all of the legislation went through and all of the stores implemented it out of their own good will, the government division assigned to approve/deny products and then maintain the list itself would still come at a large cost to the taxpayer.

I do find it interesting that the people are not fined for not paying attention to what they buy with food stamps -- the stores are. But that's a topic for another day.
 
lol I always thought CBPP stood for "cry baby, pee pants" which is usually what gets posted in response to whiny forum posters...
;)
 
Matt, I know the WIC program, which is a federal program has very specific guide lines as to what can and cannot be purchased. So if that works I don't see why another program cannot be modified to emulate it? I know you are just playing the devil's advocate here. I don't see why is so hard to at least prohibit alcohol and tobacco products.

And some credit cards do record what was purchased. I had a coworker that was reprimanded for purchasing what was rung up as snacks by the clerk and not batteries which he had actually purchased. The batteries were work related expenses but for some reason the clerk was unable to scan them and just put them though as misc. food items.

I guess what I was trying to state is that my employer knew what it was rung though even if it was incorrect, thereby proving that the card and transaction was itemized. This was at a gas station no less!
 
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