so when you were a kid you never put a penny on a rail road track? Or used fire works( depends on the state)?
I've never met anyone that has not commited a felony at some point in thier life.
as far as not lieing on taxes... that either makes you a lier or a fool... Ever ordered anything online/thru the mail? you know you are still supose to pay your local sales tax on it.( almost no one does.)
That's because you can't enforce it. Here is how sales tax (in mail order) works. Technically you have to pay sales tax to the county in which the item is shipped. However it gets even more complicated when it comes to building materials. I might ship material to a contractor in one county, however the job is in yet another county. So I have to charge the sales tax to the county in which the material is to be used. Even if they pick up the material at my shop I still have to charge sales tax for the county in which it is installed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxEnforcement of tax on remote sales
In the United States, every state with a sales tax law has a use tax component in that law applying to purchases from out-of-state mail order, catalog and e-commerce vendors, a category also known as "remote sales".[25] As e-commerce sales have grown in recent years, noncompliance with use tax has had a growing impact on state revenues. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that uncollected use taxes on remote sales in 2003 could be as high as $20.4 billion. Uncollected use tax on remote sales was projected to run as high as $54.8 billion for 2011.[26]
Enforcement of the tax on remote sales, however, is difficult. Unless the vendor has a physical location, or nexus, within a state, the vendor cannot be required to collect tax for that state.[25] This limitation was defined as part of the Dormant Commerce Clause by the Supreme Court in the 1967 decision on National Bellas Hess v. Illinois. An attempt to require a Delaware e-commerce vendor to collect North Dakoka tax was overturned by the court in the 1992 decision on Quill Corp. v. North Dakota.[26]
The Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 established a commission to study the possibility of internet taxation, but the commission did not make any formal recommendations. In a report in 2003, the Congressional Budget Office warned of the economic burden of a "multiplicity of tax systems, particularly for smaller firms".[26]
In an effort to reduce the burden of compliance with the tax laws of multiple jurisdictions, the Streamlined Sales Tax Project was organized in March 2000. Cooperative efforts in this project by 44 state governments and the District of Columbia eventually produced the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement in 2010.[27] This agreement establishes standards necessary for simplified and uniform sales tax laws. As of December 2010, 24 states had passed legislation conforming with the agreement. Whether the Streamlined Sales Tax can actually be applied to remote sales ultimately depends upon Congressional support, because the 1992 Quill v. North Dakota decision determined that only the U.S. Congress has the authority to enact interstate taxes.[28]
So at the end of the day the question is: How do you enforce it? Are you going to hire another 10,000 IRS agents?
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