Yesterday I ordered from Amazon the Kindle Edition of the novel Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The price was $9.99. Within seconds the novel was successfully downloaded to my Kindle. Later in the day, I received via email an invoice from Amazon for $9.99 plus 86 cents tax, for a total of $10.85.
"Whoa Nelly!" What's goin' on here? Tax? What tax? I suppose it's some kind of Sales Tax. But a sales tax has never before been levied on any purchase I've made from Amazon in all the years I have been buying stuff from them. In some cases, when the price was relatively high, such as my TV, I bought it from Amazon to avoid paying the exorbitant Tuscon and Arizona Sales Tax.
I sent an email to Amazon asking why I am suddenly being taxed for online purchases. Supposedly I will receive a reply within 24 hours.
We'll see.
Taxes. Humph!
I remember once a long, long time ago when my dad was angrily stomping from room to room complaining about the income tax form he was filling out.
"Income tax!" he shouted.
Looking right down at me from his incredibly tall height of five feet ten inches, he said, "I remember when this Income Tax first started. They said it was a temporary thing and would only last until the country solved this emergency. Ha! It'll never end, mark my words. It's all Bull Shit! Don't believe anything a politician ever tells you. They're liars, every single last one of them. Don't you ever forget that."
I never did forget it.
Okay . . . here is an update. An email answer came from Amazon. It is a sales tax. Yes, Amazon is now going to be collecting sales tax. On some items.
Amazon states: "You can find additional information about sellers and states or countries that collect sales tax in our Help pages here: www.amazon.com/help/tax#merchants
Great!
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WORD FOR TODAY
levied
past participle, past tense of levy
Verb
Impose (a tax, fee, or fine).
Impose a tax, fee, or fine on.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
--Gore Vidal
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