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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
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djones51
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To get back to reality it's best to read the code in TN and not just a synopsis. The relevant code is 1320-05-01  (9)Casual  and Isolated Sales. 
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nonoise
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Money in the US is whatever Congress regulates it to be. If Congress decides clay bricks engraved with appropriate seals is the money of the United States then that’s it. There is nothing in the constitution that demands gold and silver be money, the constitution only says Congress has the authority to coin money and regulate the value thereof. Constitutionally speaking.
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And I do believe that Article 1, section 8 clearly spells that out:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and
general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;


I left out anything not germane to taxation.

All the best,
Nonoise


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