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The Bubbo I don't like big pieces of cooked onion - it's the texture. So when I was a kid my mother used to grate onions by hand...

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Picky cooks and growing herbs
Bummer. Mine is only 8' x 8' and all I do is keep one 60 watt bulb burning inside of it to ward off freezing. The rosemary (and other low water...

Now how would a state revenue department know whether someone has made "Internet" purchases? The only way would be if the merchant reported the purchase to the state revenue department in question. Last time I checked the government did not have access to my cancelled checks or credit card bill, and I'm only one of over 4 million people in my state. Even if they could legally look at your credit card bills and bank statements do you really think they're going to look at the credit card bills and cancelled checks for several million people? Anyway, I don't know about other states but the state I'm familiar with says taxes must be paid on items "that are USED in the state". Well what constitutes "used"? A person can always say they bought the item for a gift and that item won't be used within the state's boundaries. As of now the only time online merchants have to collect sales tax is if they're sending the merchandise to someone who lives in a state where the merchant has an actual physical presence. If I live in Ohio and order something from a company in California I don't pay tax on it unless the company in California has a warehouse or office in Ohio.

 




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