| Author | Message | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 976 Registered: 8-2001 |
I just read in the Seattle Times that the Seattle City Council is proposing a tax on burglar alarms. They're looking for more creative ways to tax as we speak. Get out of Seattle city limits if you can! | ||
| Edward Gault (Irfgt)
Intermediate Member Username: Irfgt Post Number: 2123 Registered: 2-2001 |
I just got a tax bill for my business for $10.00 for furniture tax. I bought the only chair in my office for $5.00 at a yard sale. I think I will just take the chair up to City Hall and give it to them.  | ||
| Chuck Babel (Chuck_98_rt10)
Junior Member Username: Chuck_98_rt10 Post Number: 84 Registered: 5-2002 |
Deficit? Surplus? In my 42 years those claims never meant squat. Just words one party throws around to make the other party look bad. The school system has sucked for 42 years, people have been unemployed for 42 years and sure the economy is bad. If the SEC would have been policing their own instead of taking kickbacks things wouldn�t be near so bad. They're all crooks | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 965 Registered: 8-2001 |
On a related note. The Washington state $30 car tab fee was the result of citizens getting sick of paying hefty tab fees. I remember a few years ago, tabs for an average $26K car cost about $480. So if we don't have the base $30 fee and the monorail passes in November, license tab fee for a $145K Ferrari would be about $5,000+ annually. Ouch! | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 964 Registered: 8-2001 |
Martin, I'm so glad I don't live in the city of Seattle anymore (too much socialist agendas). I live in Redmond (AKA Microsoft town). There was a news story about this tax. A Seattle guy was delaying purchase of a BMW and a Ferrari until the result of the vote is known. I'm sure a lot of people are doing the same or considering ways to register their more expensive cars elsewhere. | ||
| ross koller (Ross)
Member Username: Ross Post Number: 418 Registered: 3-2002 |
taxes are the bane of my existence ! i have never, and will never, get more than about 10pct of the benefit of the taxes i have paid. aggressive and progressive taxation makes as much sense as weight penalties for ferrari in f1 don't get me started...... | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 2996 Registered: 5-2001 |
"Make no mistake 'bout it" (my favorite line, this time not from the Simpsons) | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 2995 Registered: 5-2001 |
Willis, time to move to the outskirts of Seattle then! If that passes I would buy real estate just outside of Seattle if I were you. William, no government gets that right! They are all bonehead idiots. Look at GWB. Came and had a 200+ Trillion surplus and managed in 2 years to bring that to a 128 Trillion defizit. Here is a guy I want to book as a guest speaker for my company! The best part is though that he will find lots of idiots that believe that the world is safer now that you can not bring your nail clippers on an aircraft! Okay, so the school system still sucks, unemployment is up 33%, the economy really sucks and there is no end in sight! That is the guy you want to trust making intelligent tax decisions? | ||
| Chuck Babel (Chuck_98_rt10)
Junior Member Username: Chuck_98_rt10 Post Number: 82 Registered: 5-2002 |
William H, taxes ALWAYS punish the middle class - of which I am a member. Personally I don't care how much money the rich make, I just wanna keep mine! | ||
| Dave (Maranelloman)
Member Username: Maranelloman Post Number: 464 Registered: 1-2002 |
Typical of socialists everywhere... | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Intermediate Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 1509 Registered: 2-2001 |
Luxury tax was only only yachts for 1 year but in that single year it badly mauled the US yacht industry. People with cubic $ simply bought yachts in europe. The yachting industry had to lobby Congress which finally relented before compeletely destroying the industry. The "leaders" wanted to punish the wealthy & ended up screwing the workers | ||
| Dave (Maranelloman)
Member Username: Maranelloman Post Number: 463 Registered: 1-2002 |
Chuck, you're 100% right. Biggest scam there is. And the only folks who benefit are the billionaire team owners whose teams double in value with a new stadium. | ||
| Chuck Babel (Chuck_98_rt10)
Junior Member Username: Chuck_98_rt10 Post Number: 81 Registered: 5-2002 |
Gawd, I hate taxes. Anyone that votes for a tax increase is a bonehead. That's probably the only generalized statement I'll ever make. How about all these stadiums and sports arenas? Raise taxes for the children and just a little bit will go to build our wonderful stadium. We're all gonna get rich if we just had a professional sports franchise in town. They pitch that BS to every city in the country. | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 500 Registered: 2-2002 |
I thought the luxury tax was taken off boats a long time ago. Boaters have also been able to benefit from a loophole that allows them to treat any boat with a head and certain living features as a second home. "Mortgage" interest was therefore deductible. You can buy a 24 footer,live on it the minimum number of days (5, I believe), and get the deduction. | ||
| Willis Huang (Willis360)
Member Username: Willis360 Post Number: 961 Registered: 8-2001 |
Speaking of taxes, there's a vote coming up in Seattle for building an extended monorail line. Funding will come from an 1.4 percent excise tax on vehicles. This is 1.4 percent to be levied each year for the next 25 years. This is additional to what local authorities are bundling on top of the base $30 license tab fee. A $145K Ferrari 360 Modena will cost an additional $2,030 to own in the city of Seattle. You'd be looking at a total of about $2,600 each year to renew the car tabs. | ||
| Chuck Babel (Chuck_98_rt10)
Junior Member Username: Chuck_98_rt10 Post Number: 80 Registered: 5-2002 |
I don't know if it crippled any industries or not, but NO tax is a good tax. All the lux tax did was put cars, etc., out of reach for those who could have otherwise afforded them. Combine the lux tax with gas guzzler tax and sales tax and you're looking at mucho $$$. Not to mention all the other government cost just to own and drive a damn car!!! | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 2981 Registered: 5-2001 |
So would you take delivery of your car before then? I can not believe it crippled the US Yacht building industry. If you have that kind of money for a boat, you know that you can register the yacht in some other tax free country. After all you still would have to pay sales tax on her. By exporting her you can get around that as well. Further you do not have the IRS knowing that you own such a toy. | ||
| William H (Countachxx)
Intermediate Member Username: Countachxx Post Number: 1501 Registered: 2-2001 |
excellent, that was a retarded throwback to the 16th Century after all. It crippled the US Yacht building industry, bunch of bonehead morons in DC | ||
| Adam Goldman '86 TR (Icnsltmfg)
Member Username: Icnsltmfg Post Number: 415 Registered: 8-2001 |
Gone!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| tommy jones (360mode)
New member Username: 360mode Post Number: 32 Registered: 9-2002 |
i have been told that this is true... anyone confirm? thanks. |