<HTML>In a message dated 9/2/2002 10:02:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, RNossaman@cox.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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</BLOCKQUOTE>                    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 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> 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 </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>