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Online Cigarette Customers Get Bill from State

Posted by Zonk on from the kind-of-defeats-the-purpose dept.

wakebrdr writes "The Michigan Treasury Department has sent bills to state residents who purchased cigarettes online to avoid Michigan's high taxes. One pack-a-day smoker received a bill for $2,500 in back taxes. If a simple subpoena of customer data allows them to easily go after lost cigarette taxes, how long until state treasuries across the country subpoena Amazon.com or other big online retailers to collect unpaid sales taxes?"

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  1. Got you covered... by Avyakata · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you thought ceasing to answer the phone would make them go away...

  2. Re:Isnt' against federal law? by ckaminski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As opposed to that poor widow who's husband farmed the land for 60 years, but cannot afford to pay the property taxes doubling every other year since her SSI benefits increase once a decade?

    Yeah, that's fair. I personally believe landowners who's SSI income makes up more than (some ratio) of their total income should be exempt from property taxes.

    That's just me. I'm sick of seeing people getting booted out of paid homes because they cannot afford property taxes anymore.