Friday, July 2, 2010

Cigarette Enforcers ? Or Just a Hoax ?

Last week I told you NYS not only is charging an extra $1.60 on cigarettes (plus the sales tax applied to that) they want the tax paid on all cigarettes held in inventory as of July 1.
To that end they sent out a floor tax form which is to be filed by September, when its presumed you would have collected all that tax from consumers.
Yesterday there was someone who came by , slapped a couple cards on the bar and quickly retrieved them and claimed he was there to count the number of cigarettes. Since I wasn't there to help the agent, he was told to come back when I was there. He stormed out and peeled out of the parking lot.
If this is what the state is up to (and he may have been a hoax, but I don't know why) they should learn some manners.
So all of you know. I have 62 packs of smokes and a check for $99.20 goes out today. Please come and buy them so I can get my money back.

3 comments:

Perro de Presa said...

Cuenta para sus cigarrillos, Sr. Alcalde! El impuesto hombre commeth!

Anonymous said...

You keep writing about this and you will be audited

Anonymous said...

What's the difference? If you're paying homage to the State they can audit you all they want. Jeff is a law abiding citizen. And he loves NY.