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Barack Obama believes getting a tan is a taxing opportunity. In order to pay for his control of your health care, part of the package to pay for it is a tax on tanning--but what tans are actually taxed? Never thought about that question, huh?
"Enter the ever-evolving IRS rules on the subject. "Free tans at video-rental stores might be taxable, but tanning services offered by health clubs mostly aren't, thanks to a late exemption. Ultraviolet tans are taxed. Spray tans aren't. Tanning salons are fretting over how to calculate unlimited memberships that combine taxed and non-taxed tans. Customers, meanwhile, have been racing to cram in tanning sessions to avoid the levy."
If you are a good business person you go to the IRS for advice on what is taxed and what is not. Right?
Here is the IRS answer:
""A spokesman for the IRS said it's not clear whether the free tan would be taxed, and that business owners should 'make the best determination they can based on their own facts and circumstances.'"
This is remarkably similar to the language Speaker Pelosi used to justify the health care overhaul bill, "We have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." But now the IRSs response is essentially, "We don't know how to tell you to implement this tax, so do your best guestimation and we'll tell you after the fact if we think you're wrong."
This is the Obama way to make sure everybody is a tax cheat--knowing it or not.
In the Obama world, they want leeway to squeeze everybody, like passing a tax that is not clear. Wait for the IRS extortion letters to go out--pay up or go to jail.
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"Enter the ever-evolving IRS rules on the subject. "Free tans at video-rental stores might be taxable, but tanning services offered by health clubs mostly aren't, thanks to a late exemption. Ultraviolet tans are taxed. Spray tans aren't. Tanning salons are fretting over how to calculate unlimited memberships that combine taxed and non-taxed tans. Customers, meanwhile, have been racing to cram in tanning sessions to avoid the levy."
If you are a good business person you go to the IRS for advice on what is taxed and what is not. Right?
Here is the IRS answer:
""A spokesman for the IRS said it's not clear whether the free tan would be taxed, and that business owners should 'make the best determination they can based on their own facts and circumstances.'"
This is remarkably similar to the language Speaker Pelosi used to justify the health care overhaul bill, "We have to pass it in order to find out what's in it." But now the IRSs response is essentially, "We don't know how to tell you to implement this tax, so do your best guestimation and we'll tell you after the fact if we think you're wrong."
This is the Obama way to make sure everybody is a tax cheat--knowing it or not.
In the Obama world, they want leeway to squeeze everybody, like passing a tax that is not clear. Wait for the IRS extortion letters to go out--pay up or go to jail.
More...