Comments on: Tennessee Revenue Commissioner to conduct surveillance!

By: paul

paul — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:56:34 +0000

revenue agents could go to the 10,000 plus state stores and check for the tax stamp.

Unfortunately the assumption is that the retailers do not sell bootlegged cigarettes, and that only private citizens are to blame.

The plan to move agents that could verify taxation in TN at the retail, to focus enforcement on private citizens is a joke.

10 million lost in revenue each month…stop the bleeding.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:56:54 +0000

Next thing, TN will start start surveillance of Post offices to catch people buying mail order/internet goods without paying sales/use tax.

Same thing here – tax evasion from buying cigarettes across the border should be expected, just like they expect us to illegally evade the use tax when we buy from mail order/internet. It’s too bad, but a by-product of high taxes and open borders between states.

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By: chowdog2

chowdog2 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:12:17 +0000

I hereby nominate–for the Nobel Prize in Economics–the Honorable, Governor Phil Bredeson (to be shared jointly with his Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr) for their ground-breaking work in Tobacco Tax & Tariffs.

The state of Tennessee can be proud.

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Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:25:59 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:45:26 +0000

Every time I read about this guy it is like I am watching “Dumb and dumber”.

By: autoegocrat

autoegocrat — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:57:59 +0000

You know, here in Memphis, we have a huge problem with people who work here, but live and spend out of state to avoid our ridiculous tax rates.

If the cops can just figure out how to plant two cartons and a loose ciggy on the driver, problem solved!

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Terry Frank and I Agree. I Presume Hell Has Frozen Over. « Tiny Cat Pants — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:09:08 +0000

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