Liked your two comments. I’m sure the FairTaxers have everything well under control. LMAo.

I didn’t pay any sales tax way back when … or was that just recently back when?

And there is no way of knowing if Wal-Mart or Gus Gorman are keeping the rounded off fractions of a cent?

Gus Gorman for the non-Krytonian was the Richard Pryor character in Superman III.

The rounded off cents was a very funny way to embezzel.

One of my wholesale reps reports that as of Jan 1, there were 1400 businesses waiting to recieve their renewal. We did not get ours until mid Jan, and had to exist off existing stock (local license allows pouring, state allows wholesale purchasing). As of last week, there were still 30 accounts who typically order weekly, still waiting on their paperwork. They all filed for renewal in November.

This means those 30 do not have the inventory capacity to wait this long for their state license, so they sneak to the retail stores to buy stock, which is totally illegal.

Often, with MADDers/biddy hen/NIMBY influenced ordinances and statutes, trying to remain legal and legitimate, and also trying to survive reality, the two often times do not work together well.

Oh, and the state collects tax from the wholesalers too. So the state is double slapped with delays in tax revenue flow.

With all the fees, taxes and license costs, who knows how much of the money paid for a drink in GA goes toward local, county and state coffers. The leas they can do is get off their asses and get that paperwork processed!

THEN who do we collect our $600 mill from?

The fact is, that equally enforcing the law on all businesses will mean that there will be slightly less net profit allowed to the owners of the businesses who have to pony-up and pay the fees and taxes.

So the DOR didn’t send me the forms for the first couple of months after we received our sales tax id. I received a letter January 11th stating that we owe $5,890.38 plus penalties and interest to bring our grand total to $7,716.27. Now, don’t get me wrong… we’d have loved to make sales of enough stuff to need to collect that much in taxes. But for a service oriented business that’s been in business for less than a year and whose other filings have been for $0, how in the hell do they estimate that we should have collected and sent in nearly $5900 in sales tax? That means we should have sold $84,148 worth of stuff.

How about instead of falsely trying to collect money from businesses that don’t owe it, try making the DOR a bit more efficient and correct in what it does first. I bet there’s quite a bit of waste that could be trimmed there.