Received a Bill for State Tax on An Amp Bought in Canada Last Year

nonoise ...

The author of the piece you posted showed his ankle with the first sentence in the article. He lives in Santa Monica. Evidently, he hasn't walked down the boardwalk into Venice lately.

What is the difference between a yearly budget deficit/surplus and an overall debt? By what extension of imagination can one equate a 1.5 trillion debt with solvency/success as the author does? Hey, let's you and I pool our credit cards and go buy that new Rolls Royce and show everyone how successful we are.

What are your thoughts on the site I left ... ??

 www.transparentcalifornia.com ...

Did you even take a look at it?? Or is it full of the "lies" you alluded to? 

Frank

Well they have to find some way to pay for the free healthcare and welfare handed out to the millions of illegals right? 

Scary thing it’s probably going to cost you more to fight it than what they’re trying to steal from you. Sad state of affairs.

@oregonpapa , once again, you show your true colors when running away from anything that negates the dreck you put out. As much as you hate "liberal California", Rump got more votes from the state than 11 other red states combined.
6,005,961 from California and
5,844,399 from Mississippi, Arkansas, W. Virgina, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, N.Dakota, S. Dakota, Utah and Montana combined.

If you want to throw out all that support, fine with me. That, and the writer of that blog is a woman. But you didn’t read all the Bloomberg references, did you? She’s one of the best bloggers out there right now and sources her info very carefully. To dismiss outright what she had to say speaks volumes.

And what do you offer? A far right site funded by a right wing billionaire who’s got this anti-union thing going. Why all the love for fascist agendas?
https://eastbayexpress.com/how-a-billionaire-funded-anti-union-think-tank-in-nevada-shapes-bay-area-news-media-coverage-of-public-employee-pay-2-1/

Don’t forget the two biggest and costliest wars we’ve fought were against such agendas (Civil War and WWII) and yet here you are, advocating for a return to their policies of being so anti worker.
It makes one wonder.......

All the best,
Nonoise

Isn't all this terrible left wing money grab the OP is talking about happening in the Good Ole Boy state of Tennessee? What's California got to do with taxes this Red State is stealing from it's fine upstanding citizens? 

I’m not sure what Tennessee requires... but... I thought they defined a "seller" as a legal business entity who sells at retail to consumers, as the type of transaction upon which they levy a sales tax.

I am unaware that they levy any sales tax on a simple sale between two private parties, in which the seller is not such a "seller" as defined by the Tennessee "Sales and Use Tax Code." With the exception of when you register a vehicle or boat from such a sale.

Further, it appears that the maximum sales tax rate in Tennessee by all jurisdictions is 9.75%. To arrive at a "sales tax" bill of $665, would imply the "retail sales price" was $6820 - which does not appear to be the case here.

I’d wonder if the "tax bill" is actually a scam!

I’d contact the Tennessee Dept of Revenue... directly... via their published phone number and ask them. I doubt you’ll find they sent you a sales tax bill for such a transaction on an amp priced as low as you suggest, which was purchased from a private party (not a retail seller).

On the other hand... if... you actually did purchase from a "retail seller" as defined by the tax code... and... the real value of the amp is as you suggest (and not $6820), then you will find the actual "sales tax" is very likely less than $50 or $60.