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I don't think it was all THAT controversial...from the comments posted in response to the column I think the opinion is pretty darn near unanimous that posting the database was a spectacularly bad idea.
You know...
I noticed Roanoke.com has a privacy policy:
http://www.roanoke.com/newsservices/wb/xp-59616
In it there are terms and conditions for people who submit content. One of those conditions is:
Pity Trejbal and the editorial board of this paper can't be bothered to abide by...
What's also interesting (and dovetails into this) are the increasing number of advanced firearms that are restricted "for Government/Law Enforcement use only." I noticed a neat rifle in an issue of American Rifleman that had that onerous phrase clearly written on the side of the receiver...
Taxphd, I think you're right about the nexus bit. I do know this issue is fairly new and as such is probably still being applied unevenly.
From the you-didn't-ask-but-I'm-telling-you-anyway department, about three years ago my company got hit hard with the use tax issue and we ended up...
Not to sound flip, but hey...OJ got away with murder so that must mean the laws against murder are bogus.
Ahem. Sorry...didn't mean to sound sarcastic.
All I can say is that the VA statutes regarding use tax are pretty clear, as far as tax laws go. Heck, even the LEOs that told the store...
Mike, which means either the FFL in question is ignorant of the law (not having been audited yet) or is deliberately violating said law.
JohnBT, good catch. I stand corrected for what I used as an example.
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Ironbarr, between two private parties (in the same state) the selling party is not able to collect sales tax, because (more than likely) that person doesn't have a license to do so. Instead, the buyer is responsible for submitting use tax on the transaction. Will he? 99 44/100% of the time he...
Smurfslayer, you are correct in that historically use tax has been the responsibility of the purchaser to remit. But more and more, VA tax people have been putting the burden on the store, not the purchaser. In the gun store's case it's easy because they have to keep records of the transaction...
Smurfslayer, the use tax works differently than sales tax.
Use tax applies to purchases made from out of state vendors. To determine if your purchase is subject to use tax, there are two criteria:
1) The vendor must not have "nexus" in Virginia. In other words, the seller cannot have...
Partisan, while I think there may be a kernel of truth in your feeling that part of the motivation of this is to discourage gun sales, in Virginia's case I think the real motivation is a little less insidious.
As you know, our state is prepped for a huge budget fight on the 2004 state budget...
Well, you don't owe sales tax per se, but rather "use tax."
Let's say you purchase something from a vendor in Nevada. You, as a Virginia resident wouldn't be subject to Nevada or Virginia "sales" tax in this instance, because it's an interstate transaction. However, Virginia charges use tax...
Like most everything else in the world, I have a feeling there's Weaver's story, the agent's story (or stories), and the truth which lies somewhere in between.
I found a somewhat even-handed take (at least to me) on the affair on Court TV's Crime Library Site written by David Lohr. In...
Wouldn't it depend on the context in which the state was seceding? For instance, if a state government went wacko and wanted to form a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy, then I'd have a pretty big problem supporting a secession.
If, on the other hand, said state was seceding for more meat...
An interesting take from a different angle:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-hillyer082503.asp
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First, let's get this straight: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is no hero. He's an oddball and a zealot.
Second, the exemplary public servants during the recent...
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