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Originally Posted by GMac  So how does 'The Man' know or find out you are paying taxes or not in a specific State? Surely sailing from one State to another isn't like going from one country to another i.e. no border/Customs patrol so I would have though no paper trail for someone in a windowless office to track.
Does 'The Man' just wonder around randomly checking Rego numbers or similar? |
Indeed, he does just that, but not randomly. It's very organized. I have a friend who got a tax bill from a state that he didn't live in because his boat was in a marina for too long. They photographed the boats in each marina on a regular basis and compared the photos over time. His showed up in the photos too often and they sent him a bill. Your tax dollars at work.
BTW, I spent a week in a marina a couple of months ago and saw a guy with some kind of box standing by slip after slip. I thought he was from the marina and asked him what he was doing. He told me he was from the census and was logging the lat-lon of each slip as an address for the Census. Big Brother is alive and well in the US.
Dick PLuta
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