Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] (BOGUS Topic)..URGENT NEWS...INTERNET TAX For YOUPersonally!
From: Jeffcoat Photography <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:37:35 -0400

Donal: Thank you. This is good advice and info to the masses.
Cheers Wilber

Donal Philby wrote:

> Ted Grant wrote:
>
> > I find it hard to believe how tax collecting would be possible without an
> > enormous number of newly hired government employees  (read bigger more
> > expensive bureaucracy) that would cost more than the taxes collected.
> Easy, Ted.  Collect from sellers.  This is what happens in California.
> I was audited once and had a sales tax fellow in my studio for a week
> and a half going over every invoice, every receipt, even FedEx records
> to prove out of state sales.  And he found $300 he disallowed (wonderful
> word!).  We also have "Use" tax, meaning that if I buy from out of state
> for my business, I have to pay a "use" tax equivalent to the sales
> tax.    The auditor did give me one tip, however.  By fluke I had always
> included the phrase "use right granted upon payment in full" on the
> invoice.  This means the contract isn't valid and fullfilled until
> payment made, so sales tax not due until paid.  Without that phrase, the
> sales tax would become payable upon invoicing, whether you run your
> books by cash or accrual.
>
> And we think taking pictures is hard work.
>
> donal
> --
> Donal Philby
> San Diego
> http://www.donalphilby.com