getting out of hand?

[tom_vito]

@vtecsol

this is why i beleive that the income tax should be taken away and an increase in the sales tax with tax on all items… then you are taxing everybody fair, because even hookers and drug dealers have to buy things

The most perfect solution, but will never happen. Because the rich would lose their loop holes for getting out of paying income tax. But it would get tax money from the drug dealers.

@spektator"

not true! those sales get added up…and paid in quarterly payments to the state. its all in the books. and must be reported. Theres really no way around it…if its bought, its taxed, recorded, and paid.

Theres actually a website that shows “dead beat sales tax payers” in Pa. Every county had at least one…Allegh. being second highest to Philly. And Kmart is not on any list.

I just paid the sales taxes for my work…the only way you can let sales tax fly is if the cashier themselves pocketed the cash and not purchased the item via register.

I’m glad you think it works this way, and in your whole life of working retail you have never learned the “loop holes” of making money off of sales tax.

@fah_quad

And I’d question whether it goes to the government or not. All depends on how they report it. If they report just the actual sales of TP, then they don’t have to pay tax on that, so where does it go? They are reportung sales of taxable items. If TP isn’t supposed to be taxed, and they are only telling the state what the net sales were on both taxable and non-taxable items, then they may not be reporting that the customer paid the tax on a non-taxable item, either.

Exactly. If they are only reporting the “taxable sales”, the only pay tax on that amount. It really doesn’t matter if it is collected yearly, bi-annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily. They are going to report $100,000 of taxable sales, pay the required 5% (yes 5% not 6%, the state pays the retailer 1% for collecting and paying on time), or $5000.00 sales tax, and the other $1001.00 they collected by charging sales tax on non-taxable items gets pocketed, as pure profit. Of course al numbers are fiction, just pulled from the sky above my head.