@devinplombier Is that the best comeback you can think of? The old I'm rubber and you're glue BS? Like I said, stick to audio, dude.
All the best,
Nonoise
State of California reaching for Sales Tax
I sent a Grimm MU1 streamer back to the netherlands for upgrade in early 2024. I had contacted them with a question. they logged into my streamer remotely. said it looks to have a cable problem and that is was an early model that they would like to upgrade to the latest version at no cost to me if I would just send it back. The MU1 isn’t heavy so I decided to send it back.
choosing a Tariff code wasn’t easy but finally found a code for "returned items" which prevented Grimm from having to pay a large VAT on recieving it. When they sent it back, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency held up the package for a few days, and then I had to pay them about $50 for their trouble to determine that no tariff was due.
I thought that was it.
Just got a letter from the state of california saying that I owe them sales tax for this item they saw coming into the country from the Netherlands. They gave me a reference but I need to "create and account as an importer" and then try to convince them that I do not owe sales tax (use tax).
I haven’t found record of my shipment out of the USA yet but hope I can find someting to convince them this wasn’t a purchase.
Wish me luck,
Jery
@devinplombier Is that the best comeback you can think of? The old I'm rubber and you're glue BS? Like I said, stick to audio, dude. All the best, |
Why is it that when stating facts, I am accused of being political. Anyone with any sense knows that CA is ridiculous with taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic BS. Just ask the car enthusiasts who live in CA what they have to put up with. And this comes from someone who lived there in the 80s. Beautiful place for sure and that's why most people stay. It's surely not because because of anything else. But you never let an opportunity go by to play your political card. |
Hypocrisy suits you, @charliee . |
Using the letter "K" implies a Russian style of government which California is the furthest from that one can think of. Disputing that is easy and you call that being political? Anyone with any sense knows that California would be the 4th largest economy in the world if it were a nation and not a state. That creates a lot of jealousy. Yes, we have problems but all states have problems. Democracy is messy. There is no reason, other than criminal, why every state can’t be as successful. Some are but due to their size aren’t economic powerhouses, but at least they’re making it on their own. California pays more in taxes than they get back and they’d like their $83 billion back (that’s just in 2022). Having it go to other states that refuse to support themselves, parasitically living off other states is getting old. It’s about time they tax their own citizens and businesses and stop with their silly welfare dependency. It’s done intentionally and has been a criminal enterprise (in some cases) since the end of the Civil War. In some red states, we taxpayers from other states pay up to 40% of the operating costs of their state government. Why the hell should we? Imagine running your own sovereign state (as they like to call themselves) on its own. If that were to happen, you wouldn’t have any bragging rights about how low your taxes are. And there you go again with that oft used and tiresome refrain. |
@immatthewj I wish gas prices were at $10/gallon. I think that would do it. |
i am here winters in California… the bike lane and real infrastructure and in general a caring and compassionate diverse populace with some remarkable educational and research institutions are worth the freight $$$$ imo… Of course.. i retreat to Seattle summers and often chasing fish in BC.. i wouldn’t mind in the least leaving red terror ignorance behind and joining Canada… |
won't the fish boycott you up there @tomic601? |
We call them seagulls. They fly in, crap all over everything, and then leave. But these guys crap on thread after thread, and never leave. I guess we can call them The Squad. that’s what their leaders called themselves. And of course they don’t think for themselves, they just parrot what their leaders tell them to say. When The Squad shows up on your thread, you can forget what the thread was all about. Now it is just "Orange Man Bad" and other versions of their endless obsession. |
@tomic601 + 1 |
+100 @2psyop ! |
Ah shucks....and I thought we were finally winning you over. When you say "we all know who you are", is that supposed to scare people? Do you think that those who love this country are intimidated by that? Truth be told, we'd love to see all the un-American types be the ones to go away. All the best, |
Audio Research Corp. owner/electronic designer Bill Johnson spent his summers in Minnesota, but had a winter home in Indian Wells, California, next door neighbor to Palm Desert. Temperatures in the summer there get up into the high teens (115-119 degrees fahrenheit). My air conditioner worked overtime to counterbalance the 16 output tubes in the pair of Atma-Sphere M60’s I had when I lived in Palm Desert! When I was a little kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California (home to Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, etc.) in the 1950’s, the air pollution was so bad that some days we couldn’t go outside during lunch hour at school. Looked at from the hills above the Valley, the entire Valley "bowl’ had a layer of thick brown "soup" floating above it. You could taste the air, and it burned your eyes. It was all from the millions of cars driving around all day and night. Other areas of the State (and Country), not having so many cars on the road, don’t have to deal with such matters, at least as far as vehicles goes Emission standards were instituted (thank you Ralph Nadar and all those who followed his lead), and the Valley air now is pretty darn clean. In March of 2024 the Biden/Harris administration strengthened the pollution standards for medium-duty vehicles produced from 2027 through 2032. Unfortunately, the current administration and the U.S. House Of Representatives (those in the majority, of course) have declared their intention to repeal those standards, and even lower them to levels long ago proven to be detrimental to the health of humans (and their pets, no doubt). You get the government you vote for, if you vote at all.
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Lovers of that said king are already online screaming that Roberts and Barrett are traitors. Rump even posted (look it up online) that any judge who dare rules against him are automatically guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. On an earlier post he said those that stand up to him should be immediately impeached. He's flagrantly ignoring rulings and sending it stooges to mock and stall judges with their inane pronouncements and filings. I seem to remember these tactics being used in other countries when they overthrew their democratic systems. Does that sound "American" to anyone here? Bueller? Bueller? All the best, |
you guys are arguing with cult members. there IS such a thing as TDS, the only problem is the sufferers are the people who think he's bigly good. He's a petulant child and his supporters are low propensity voters bent on a weird version of revenge for imagined slights. It would be hilarious if it weren't so grotesque.
EVERYTHING'S COMPUTER |