Sales tax makes criminal our of ordinary businessman

Sales

tax makes criminal out of ordinary businessman

I greatly enjoyed

your column in today's Citizen Opinion and I agree with

you on every thing except the sales tax issue. I would

not mind a national sales tax to replace the income tax,

if there was a foolproof way of doing it. The way it is

being done now is an abomination.

The reason I am so

vehemently against sales taxes is the way these taxes are

collected. It makes crooks and criminals out of the

average small business owner. What would you say of an

establishment that has gross annual sales of almost

$400,000 yet turns in less than $4,000 of the collected

sales taxes?

Roughly 80 percent of the

sales taxes that were or should have been collected and

turned in to the state of Georgia fell through the cracks

in this case. There is no agency or even a way, as far as

I know, that can make certain that this can not happen.

Ever notice, in restaurants

for example, when you pay the bill including the required

sales tax, the bill is not even rung up on the cash

register?

No one wants to do the tax

collecting, unless of course, there is something in it

for them. And this is how we make crooks out of ordinary,

hard-working and otherwise decent people.

Please do not make

the words "sales tax" acceptable, or the next

SPLOST will become a shoo-in and put even more of our tax

dollars into the pockets of unscrupulous and dishonest

people.

F.J. Adam

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