Originally Posted by
Dreadnaught
I'm simply given a discount for cash, any tax-related explanations for that discount is mere innuendo. The discount is higher than the sales tax.
However, one can't help but see how the piling-on of taxation at every corner gives people ample inclination to dodge taxes at every corner. Hence, Greece, Italy and other economic/tax fixtures of southern Europe. It gets insulting when I'm asked to pay sales tax on a 40 year old used car in addition to state registration fees, insurance taxes, garage taxes and gas taxes. The state certainly has a role in registration, insurance, road maintenance. The fact that it also has to tax the purchase of something so old is where people inevitably wish they could find ways to cut corner.