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From: brett@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 12:54:16 EST
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> > >     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 you have a free checking account (and you don't pay for checks)
> you could send them lots and lots of checks (which they have to process).
> Also, if banking regulations haven't changed, you can write a check on
> most anything provided that name, date, bank name, payee and amount are
> there.  I recollect people doing it on watermellons, fish and other
> items.  Of course I don't recommend doing any of these things :).
> Glenn Tenney

If I were a bank branch manager, I would be reluctant to honor
a check written on the back of a fish.  I would probably try to
think of a reason for not cashing it; maybe I would return the
check for insuf"fish"ent funds.....

Besides where would you keep your cancelled fish?

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Brett Fleisch
University of California Los Angeles
LOCUS Research Group
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