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


Wow! The envelope said “Dept of Revenue” so I figured it may be my car tags due. I opened the envelope to find a statement that I owed $665 for “use tax” on an amp I bought last year in June.  Shocked is an understatement. Yes, I bought a used amp from a guy in Canada through A’gon. But I paid the tariff on it. Now they also want tax.  However, the amount they are basing it on is over double what I paid for the amp. But had to send it to Don Sachs for repair a few months later. So I wonder if they are seeing that as a separate purchase rather than a repair. They even charged me $43 interest which is more ridiculous IMO.
So the question...Are you required  to pay tax on a used amp or other used  items? Has anyone else encountered this? Yes, I know the states are cracking down on the sales tax. But on used items? Wow

artemus_5
Strange thing about all the money in CA; In spite of "rolling" in money, CA has the largest homeless population in the US. 1 in 4 homeless Americans are Californians.
Had to go back up and find it. My bad, but not enough to negate that California is the powerhouse economy in this nation, which you haven't successfully argued against. Homelessness has been with us since, forever?

And here you are, madly dancing on the head of a pin about what's commonly known, avoiding the fact that we do so well in this state. It's  a common right wing tactic to magnify a small point to negate the bigger story. And in my haste, I fell for it. Sometimes your chicken little dance has it's value. 

But we're still talking of less than 170,000 out of over 40 million with about 29,000 coming from out of state. 0.4% of a states population being on the outs paints a completely different picture than the one you're doing with your crayons. 

So, what state do you reside in?
And, what's your solution to the homelessness in this country?
Is it the Brian Dennehy route he took in Rambo?
What's with the cancel culture?

All the best,
Nonoise

And so far, not one radical leftist has called me a Nazi. I feel vindicated. 

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    "And, what's your solution to homelessness in this country?"

1.  For the mentally ill who cannot fend for themselves, reopen the mental hospitals that were closed due to ACLU lawsuits so they can get proper treatment and medication to at least lead a life without seeing and hearing demons. Hot showers and three good meals a day would be mandatory. 

2.  For the addicted, mandatory rehab programs, privately run for a profit. The better the outcomes, the more the rewards.

3.  For those who have been priced out of California homeownership, bus them to Pennslyvania. Harsh winters, I know, but a nice house is around $150,000. Rent is cheap too ... especially around January or February.

For the rest who just love living on sandy beaches for free, constructing tent cities in the Mojave Desert would be a good choice. Air-conditioning and rabbit stew provided, of course. 

And your solutions are what, exactly ... besides raising the minimum wage, providing a "living wage, stimulus checks, or a monthly packet containing newly counterfeited money? 

Frank
Frank, 

All great and some, funny points except for #1. It was Reagan who started the ball rolling.
https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/2017/02/08/u01-ronald-reagan-and-the-federal-deinstitutionalization-of-mentally-ill-patients/comment-page-1/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/

As for my take, establish a living wage, which would free up the taxes we pay in food services and housing assistance and stop subsidizing the employers who are making bank off of this racket.

Pay some form of child support/assistance to working families so they can afford decent child care since both parents need to work to make ends meet. Other countries have been doing this since, forever, and have the stats to back up the benefits from doing so. 

As for "printing" money, how come I heard no one bring that up with the last, unfunded, 2 trillion dollar tax giveaway to those that didn't need or warrant it? 

All the best,
Nonoise
So my answer with the apology (for reading too quickly) and in which I admitted it, while still pointing out your sidetracking of matters gets deleted?

Nothing untoward or offensive in the least in that post. What a piece or work you are. Did you do some quick research on your state and saw how bad things are there and that's why you won't tell me what state you reside in?

pauly, did you do that to make yourself look even better? 
Do you think leaving everything else up achieves that?

Are you sportin' wood for getting to use the word puerile in a sentence?
You're still wrong about the matter of California's success and your blowing the homeless situation way out of proportion as a means to attack the state.

All the best,
Nonoise
@oregonpapa
And your solutions are what, exactly

Progressives have solutions. They just have no way to pay for it other than taking it from those that have some $$$. Then at some point, after they have the tax high enough to destroy incentives, businesses and the morale of the people, the govt confiscates everything just to pay the elites at the top. Marxism/Socialism/Collectivism/Communism promises a lot and gives little except destruction of everything it touches