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Re: Ohio Law Would Require Auction License for eBay Sellers

Tony P. (kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net)
Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:47:31 -0500

In article <telecom24.101.4@telecom-digest.org>, lisa_minter2001
@yahoo.com says:

> CNN, via Yahoo News on Tuesday reports that the State of Ohio has
> become very unfriendly toward online sellers using E-Bay.
> According to CNN-Money, State of Ohio now requires an auction license
> of people who want to sell on E-Bay, as well as a one-year training
> class required of sellers _and_ a fifty thousand dollar security
> bond. The auction license costs two hundred dollars. If you fail to
> do these things, they have some jail time waiting for you. Their
> excuse is they want to 'cut back on internet fraud using E-Bay'.

> http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/07/technology/ohio_ebay/index.htm

Tax revenue. That's what every state is about.

On a related note -- a couple years ago I get notice from the state of
RI that I never filed my 1990 taxes and owe them $1,300 between fines,
etc. So the past few years they snatched my refunds.

This year I decided I want receipts from this point forward, and I'll
keep my tax records for more than three years so I can prove I filed.
Turns out the RI Division of Taxation won't give a receipt. I got the
woman to stamp my copy with their "RECEIVED - RI DIV TAX" verbiage
with the date and all.

Hopefully the state will lose one more of my returns -- then I can
bring the receipted version to the news hounds and watch as the sparks
fly.

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