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From: fine@nmtvax.UUCP (Andrew J Fine)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 14:26:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 14:26:32 1986
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In article <> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>In article <493@faron.UUCP> ao@faron.UUCP (Alan R. Ouellette) writes:
>>     If I end up having to pay this tax,  can I pay them 626,018
>>pennies?  Can they refuse to accept pennies as legal tender?  And
>>if they do, can I say that they refused payment and be able to get 
>>my registration anyway?
>
>From what I've read somewhere, any amount of pennies more than 50 is
>not legal tender.  Furthermore, I've heard, from a student at the school
>at the time, that Princeton University applied this when one of their
>seemingly random $50 fees sparked an abortive penny protest, but I do
>not have the details.
>
>ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

Are gold coins considered legal tender? I suppose you could protest by dumping
gold coins on the taxman and flatter his ego at the same time, as he would
scramble to get them sold before the price dropped, or hold out say ten years
so the price would go sky high.

Andrew Jonathan Fine