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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:49:22 EST
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> In article <10133@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
> >I imagine Taxachusetts is sticking you with a property tax, not a sales tax.
> Actually, it IS a sales tax.  Our Common"wealth" assumes that any attempt
> to import a car into the state within x amount of time (12, 18, or 24 months,
> I'm not sure) is an attempt to buy out of state and defraud the state.  So it
> charges you sales tax nonetheless, regardless of the reason.

This absurd but apparently legal injustice is perpetrated in other places
than Massachusetts. A roommate of mine moved from Mass to Pennsylvania a 
few years ago, and they charged him a sales tax on his car, which he had
bought some months earlier in Boston. He was furious, but he had to pay.
So don't single out Massachusetts for abuse on this one.