---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 9/2/2002 10:02:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, RNossaman@cox.net writes: > Subj:Sales Tax > Date:9/2/2002 10:02:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:RNossaman@cox.net">RNossaman@cox.net</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Ron You sound a touch cynical my brother. Is there any thing I can do to help? Let me get this straight. I seems that your not found of government and that you might even be insinuating that some are getting a free ride on the backs of people that produce a tangible product. hey this is America Land of oppurtunist, a a a I a mean oppurtunity. Makes me see red too. Got plenty o all that out here in the anti- business sunshine state. I'm going to bed I gotta work tomorrow too so I can get my paid holidays ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aha? >>>>>>I'm done>>>>Dale Erwin > > Interesting. > > Twenty five years ago, the powers that be in Kansas didn't require sales > tax on labor. Then some genius in the local "blood from turnips" department > > woke up, looked around for a guaranteed source of income to support his > no-fault lifestyle, and said "hey"! Enter the concept of sales tax on > labor. Up to that time, churches were exempt too, but the transcendental > "hey!" epiphany sucked them into the fold, as it were, with the rest of us. > > Maybe ten years ago, this same seminal wellspring of genius tax legislation > > were visited by the spirits of the "random local tax" one dark and stormy > night just before Christmas. As a result, we were summarily given the > privilege of keeping track of and charging whatever sales tax was in effect > > on any given week in any given county of any given state in which any given > > one of us happened to have accidentally made a buck during any given month. > > Life was interesting for a while there until the bean counters in the > "blood from turnips" department realized that the BS and paperwork involved > > in dealing with this -uh- system (even after the bulk of the abuse was > absorbed by the legion small contractors filing the paperwork) not only > drove a lot of small business away from any work out of area, but cost so > much in actual hands-on labor for the collectors of said turnip blood as to > > altogether too closely resemble working for a living. This was > insupportable! It was obviously time to simplify to take the workload from > the shoulders of local government, without adversely affecting the > relatively newfound windfall profits. What to do? Near infinite wisdom > wisely dictated the mandate to us all to collect sales tax on all sales and > > labor at the current rate at the point of origin of the business. Everyone > loved this one. The paperwork went down drastically for all concerned. The > extractors of blood from turnips went back to their afternoon naps without > having to actually produce documentation (or much of anything else obvious) > > for their 33.2 paid days vacation and holidays, retirement plan, sick > leave, medical insurance (with dental), company vehicle, and carte blanche > to destroy the business of nearly anyone they like on their whim. The > contractors, meanwhile, got to spend their afternoons working for pay > instead of generating idiot paperwork for turnip suckers, and the church > lobbyists sat there in a mildly dazed state until finally, one of them > looked around, scratched, and said "hey!". So while the extractors of B > from T were napping and re-figuring their retirement benefits one fine warm > > afternoon, the church lobbyists sneaked their old exemption back into the > folder. So we now charge the local rate of sales tax wherever we may do > business, on both parts and labor, except to educational institutions, > dealers for purposes of resale, hospitals or other "non-profit" (right) > organizations, and churches - provided we obtain and keep on file an > official signed tax exemption certificate from each and every one of them > we have ever charged a penny for (tax exempt) service. > > But that could change at any time, depending on who's snoring wakes whom > up. > Ron N > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/47/7f/b9/80/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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