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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:16:01 EST
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In article <2586@mit-hermes.ARPA>, jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) writes:
> > 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.


     Believe it or not, that bastion of "mellowness" (California for the
uninitiated) does the exact same thing!!! My brother and his wife had three
cars (well, two cars and a truck) between the two of them, and since they
both work at the same place, they decided to give my parents one of the cars.
Now, my brother and his wife have been living in California for over two years,
BUT THEY STILL HAD TO PAY STATE SALES TAX!!! I thought California was supposed
to be a little more "considerate" of the people, but I guess not!!!! Luckily,
though, they were able to put down their own price for the car.



			A mildewy former Californian