In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:39:56 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > blake murphy > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:02:23 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

> >>> Now, in the US the tax people are not above doing just what she did and
> >>> then fining the store for not enforcing the tax law. Are the UK tax
> >>> people equally slimy?
> >>
> >> what the hell are you talking about?
> >
> > Sounds pretty simple to me. In my state, food from the store is not
> > taxable, food from the restaurant *is* taxable. Lots of times, there is
> > both a store and a restaurant in the same room. Some times, a store
> > sells food that is ready to eat (think deli). Sometimes the line gets
> > fuzzy. Sometimes the tax people will come in, order something, tell the
> > cashier they are going to eat something there (maybe there's a bench in
> > front for people who are waiting for a ride), and wait to be charged
> > tax. If they don't get charged tax, they write the place up.
>
> yes, but he made it sound like the u.s. was crawling with tax people doing
> sting operations on grocery stores with cafés. not that i've heard of.

Maybe the US isn't "crawling" with them, but I've run into this twice.
When you are the one getting nailed, it feels pretty slimy.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA