Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases?

theodp writes "Over the next week, taxpayers in 19 states will be confronting new sections on state returns that ask them to fork over unpaid sales taxes for items purchased out of state, including Internet transactions. A NY Daily News editorial characterized the addition of use tax to state returns as a rip-off and advised taxpayers to fill in a zero on the line, although an accountant suggests doing so may even be worse than just leaving it blank and put you on the line for tax fraud."

If not $0.00

[Electrawn]

$6.66 should get the message across loud and clear.

Re:Nevada?

[lcsjk]

Send me a check for the amount you owe and I'll include it with mine.

Slashdot Tax Cheats

[pipingguy]

Did VA Software get audited, or what?

Re:Yeah, I can see this working. *cough*

[Anonymous Coward]

Only the most psychotic conspiracy theorists would believe that the FBI shares its intelligence data with the IRS.

Re:How about don't even file

[griffitts]

It reminds me of those movies where everybody was afraid not to cower to local bully, but if they all did they would all have been better off.

Yes, let's do away with funding all levels of government because you saw something in a movie.

Re:New Hampshire

[griffitts]

Here in N.H. there is no sales tax. I often forget that other states even have sales tax.

That's ok, because most of the rest of us often forget New Hampshire is a state.

Re:Which states?

[Luscious868]

Well then ... fuck Alabama, fuck California, fuck Connecticut, fuck Idaho, fuck Indiana, fuck Kentucky, fuck Louisiana, fuck Maine, fuck Massachusetts, fuck Michigan, fuck New Jersey, fuck New York, fuck North Carolina, fuck Ohio (and while I'm at it fuck the Buckeyes), fuck Rhode Island, fuck South Carolina, fuck Utah, fuck Vermont, fuck Virginia, fuck Wisconsin, and last but not least, fuck these bloodsucking politicians who think that they are entitled to take a piece of every god damned penny I earn, every god damned penny I save, and every god damned penny I spend but have no problem if large corporations don't pay a damn thing.

Oh, and you can quote me on that.

Dinner?

[the eric conspiracy]

So if I eat dinner in a restaurant across the state line in a state that doesn't collect sales tax, and drive home, do I owe on the partially digested remains in my stomach? If so, how do I calculate the amount owed since evidently at least part of the food was used out of state?

Re:Nevada?

[hchaos]

Hmmm... I live in Nevada and I'm wondering how this works. The article says that all states have use tax, but it is collected on the state income tax form. What does a fine upstanding citizen, in states like Nevada where there is no income tax

And from all of us degenerate gamblers who pay your taxes for you, you're welcome.