Sales Tax

[Erwinspiano@AOL.COM]

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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
> 


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