It is difficult to imagine the Feds going to something as simple as sales tax to fund the bridge to nowhere and other necessary vote purchasing ventures.
Why collect from 15-20 million businesses which have no rights to privacy and are regulated by many laws and local zoning and other regulations? Businesses that are required to keep legible books and can be audited by any number of agencies any time. Businesses have workman's comp audits, sales tax audits, insurance audits, income tax audits, employment development department (EDD), etc. Businesses by definition must have cleaner records than individuals. They would rather collect from over 150+ million individuals who have many rights to privacy and do not have to keep correct records and cannot be audited without a search warrant and can be blocked by lawyers. That keeps all the accountants and lawyers in business. ----- Original Message ----- From: "KAM.covad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [OT] IRS -- keep it or do away with it? (was Re: Amount of moneydeposited into banks and IRS) Almost every state has sales tax now. The states have the staff and the mechanism for collecting it. I am sure the Feds would want to glom on a few hundred thousand extra unneeded people, but they would not need to. On this subject, California is rolling out online reporting and paying. We have been paying a subcontractor accounting firm to take our numbers and fill out the paperwork every quarter for more than 30 years. Last quarter, one employee in our company filled out and paid the sales tax online in about 45 minutes. That 45 minutes included the setup, id password, etc. This will be a significant savings for us every year. Also, now we can fill out the tax before the 5th of the month instead of barely making the deadline. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Madigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [OT] IRS -- keep it or do away with it? (was Re: Amount of moneydeposited into banks and IRS) You would still need an IRS to collect the sales tax. ************************************************* Barack Obama Antichrist gear http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike --- On Tue, 11/4/08, MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] IRS -- keep it or do away with it? (was Re: Amount of money > deposited into banks and IRS) > To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> > Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 2:29 PM > Nicholas Geti wrote: > > That is true. It is $10,000. > > > http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=148821,00.html > > > Some folks say we should get rid of the IRS entirely and > just have a > national sales tax. > > What are your thoughts on that? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
