Comments on: Four Ways You’re Unknowingly Cheating on Taxes

By: BT

BT — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:02 +0000

Are you out of your mind?! Declare barter income and pay use tax?! And the tooth fairy is real too!!!

By: taxbite

taxbite — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:52:39 +0000

Usually businesses get hit up for the Use Tax. That’s because businesses fall under other rules about keeping records for tax purposes. Individuals are more transient, and the amount is usually not ‘material’ therefore the government is not going to spend much time chasing a few bucks from an individual.

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:25 +0000

Gasp! Is the photo of the woman with the little kid on her back the picture you first ran? Eek, is all i can say. Eeek!

How does anybody catch you on use tax? Some time ago I bought a custom-made PC from an out-of-state company that was the vendor for my employer — they gave us wage slaves a break on the price of our own purchases. Several years later, I got a letter from them saying I had to pony up umpty-umpteen gerjillion bucks as some sort of tax (possibly a use tax?) that they were supposed to have charged but neglected to do. I told them to take a flying eff at the moon, since by the time they got around to sending this notice the computer was on its last silicon-based legs. It was so old it was about shot, and I’d be darned if I was gunna pay more for it, evidently for a tax they were supposed to have collected at the time of sale. Nothing ever came of it. Hope my next comment will not be coming from Leavenworth!

By: jim

jim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:18 +0000

Alex: My apologies for offending you, I did a search on Flickr and chose the first picture available. While I don't see it as stereotypical or offensive, I swapped it out.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:37:33 +0000

In North Carolina, Use Tax is on your state income tax return and the state recommends you pay 0.0675% of your NC taxable income (and programs like TurboTax will put in that amount by defaultl). Nobody really knows if you are more subject to audit if you put down $0– it is always tempting. See: http://www.dor.state.nc.us/downloads/D401.pdf#page=7.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:29:53 +0000

Do you think you could have found a more stereotypical nanny picture? I don’t.

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:59:02 +0000

I presume “every single person” includes YOU!

By: Lynnae

Lynnae — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:21 +0000

Living in Oregon makes it easy. No sales tax.

And I haven’t bartered in a long time, and I don’t have a nanny, so I guess I’m OK.