by Jack
Two years ago one of our former co-writers who moved on to his own blog made a list of the taxes we pay. It was a great article and the taxes are still with us, so once again for your reading enjoyment here are the taxes you pay every day:
1. Accounts Receivable Tax
2. Accounting and Tax Preparation fees (cost to taxpayers $300 billion)
3. Accumulated Earnings Tax
4. Accumulation Distribution of Trusts
5. Activity Fee (Dumping Permit Fee)
6. Air Tax (PA coin-operated vacuums)
7. Aircraft Jet Fuel Tax
8. Aircraft Excise Tax
9. Alcohol Fuels Tax
10. Alcoholic Beverage Tax
11. Alternative Minimum Tax – Amt
12. Ambulance Services (Air Ambulance Services, SD)
13. Ammunition Tax
14. Amusement Tax (MA, VA, MD)
15. Annual Custodial Fees (Ira Accounts)
16. Ballast Water Management Fee (Marine Invasive Species)
17. Biodiesel Fuel Tax
18. Blueberry Tax (Maine)
19. Bribe Taxes (Pay If You Dare)
20. Brothel licensing fees (NV – $35,000.00 per year per brothel)
21. Building Permit Tax
22. Capital Gains Tax
23. California Interstate User Diesel Fuel Tax
24. California Redemption Value (Can and Bottle Tax)
25. CDL License Tax
26. Charter Boat Captain License
27. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee
28. Cigarette Tax
29. Cigarette Tax Stamp (Acts) (Distributors)
30. Compressed Natural Gas Tax
31. Commercial Activity Tax (OH – for Service Providers)
32. Corporate Income Tax
33. Court Fines (Indirect Taxes)
34. Disposable Diapers Tax (Wisconsin)
35. Disposal Fee (Any Landfill Dumping)
36. Dog License Tax
37. Electronic Waste Recycling Fee (E-Waste)
38. Emergency Telephone User Surcharge
39. Environmental Fee (CA – HazMat Fees)
40. Estate Tax (Death Tax, to be reinstated)
41. Excise Taxes
42. Facility Fee (CA – HazMat Fees)
43. FDIC tax (insurance premium on bank deposits)
44. Federal Income Tax
45. Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
46. Fiduciary Income Tax (Estates and Trusts)
47. Fishing License Tax
48. Flush Tax (MD Tax For Producing Wastewater)
49. Food License Tax
50. Fountain Soda Drink Tax (Chicago – 9%)
51. Franchise Tax
52. Fresh Fruit (CA, if Purchased From A Vending Machine)
53. Fuel Permit Tax
54. Fur Clothing Tax (MN)
55. Garbage Tax
56. Gasoline Tax (44.75 Cents Per Gallon)
57. Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
58. Generator Fee (Recycled Waste Fee)
59. Gift Tax
60. Gross Receipts Tax
61. Hamburger Tax (Ask Huckabee)
62. Hazardous Substances Fees: Generator, Facility, Disposal
63. Household Employment Taxes
64. Hunting License Tax
65. Illegal Drug Possession (No. Carolina)
66. Inheritance Tax
67. Insect Control Hazardous Materials License
68. Insurance Premium Tax
69. Intangible Tax (Leases Of Govt. Owned Real Property)
70. Integrated Waste Management Fee
71. Interstate User Diesel Fuel Tax
72. Inventory Tax
73. IRA Rollover Tax (a transfer of IRA money)
74. IRA Early Withdrawl Tax
75. IRS Interest Charges
76. IRS Penalties (Tax On Top Of Tax)
77. Jock Tax (income earned by athletes in some states)
78. Kerosene, Distillate, & Stove Oil Taxes
79. Kiddie Tax (Child’s Earned Interest Form 8615)
80. Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee (Occupational)
81. Lease Severance Tax
82. Liquid Natural Gas Tax
83. Liquid Petroleum Gas Tax
84. Liquor Tax
85. Litigation Tax (TN Imposes Varies With the Offense)
86. LLC/PLLC Registration Tax
87. Local Income Tax
88. Lodging Taxes
89. Lump-Sum Distributions
90. Luxury Taxes
91. Make-Up Tax (Ohio, applying in a salon is taxable)
92. Marriage License Tax
93. Meal Tax
94. Medicare Tax
95. Mello-Roos Taxes (Special Taxes and Assessments)
96. Minnow Dealers License (Retail – For One Shop)
97. Minnow Dealers License (Distributor – For One+ Shops)
98. Mobile Home Ad Valorem Taxes
99. Motor Fuel Tax (For Suppliers)
100. Music and Dramatic Performing Rights Tax
101. Nudity Tax (Utah)
102. Occupation Tax (Various Professional Fees)
103. Oil and Gas Assessment Tax
104. Oil Spill Response, Prevention, And Administration Fee
105. Pass-Through Withholding
106. Pay-Phone Calls Tax (Indiana)
107. Personal Property Tax
108. Personal Holding Company (undistributed earnings)
109. Pest Control License
110. Petroleum Business Tax
111. Playing Card Tax (Al)
112. Pole Tax (TX – A $5 Cover Charge On Strip Clubs)
113. Profit from Illegal Drug Dealing
114. Property Tax
115. Prostitution Tax (NV – Prostitute Work Permits)
116. Rain Water Tax (Runoff after a Storm)
117. Real Estate Tax
118. Recreational Vehicle Tax
119. Road Usage Tax
120. Room Tax (Hotel Rooms)
121. Sales Tax (State)
122. Sales Tax (City)
123. Sales And Use Tax (Sellers Permit)
124. School Tax
125. Service Charge Tax
126. Self Employment Tax
127. Sex Sales Tax (UT, when nude people perform services)
128. Sewer & Water Tax
129. Social Security Tax
130. Sparkler and Novelties Tax (WV Sellers of Sparklers, etc.)
131. Special Assessment Tax (Not Ad Valorem)
132. State Documentary Stamp Tax on Notes (FL RE Tax)
133. State Franchise Tax
134. State Income Tax
135. State Park Fees
136. State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
137. Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) Fuel Tax
138. Stud Fees (Kentucky’s Thoroughbred Sex Tax)
139. Tangible Personal Property Tax
140. Tattoo Tax (AR Tax On Tattoos)
141. Telephone Federal Excise Tax
142. Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
143. Telephone Federal Surcharge Taxes
144. Telephone State Surcharge Taxes
145. Telephone Local Surcharge Taxes
146. Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
147. Telephone Recurring Charges Tax
148. Telephone Non-Recurring Charges Tax
149. Telephone State Usage Charge Tax
150. Telephone Local Usage Charge Tax
151. Tire Recycling Fee
152. Tobacco Tax (Cigar, Pipe, Consumer Tax)
153. Tobacco Tax (Cigar, Pipe, Dealer Tax)
154. Toll Road Tax
155. Toll Bridge Tax
156. Toll Tunnel Tax
157. Tourism or Concession License Fee
158. Traffic Fines (Indirect Taxation)
159. Transportable Treatment Unit Fee (Small Facility)
160. Trailer Registration Tax
161. Trout Stamp (Addendum To Fish License)
162. Use Taxes (On Out-Of-State Purchases)
163. Utility Taxes
164. Unemployment Tax
165. Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee
166. Underpayment of Estimated Tax (Form 2210)
167. Unreported Tip Income (Social Security and Medicare Tax)
168. Vehicle License
169. Registration Tax
170. Vehicle Sales Tax
171. Wagering Tax (Tax on Gambling Winnings)
172. Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) Fuel Tax
173. Water Rights Fee
174. Watercraft Registration Tax
175. Waterfowl Stamp Tax
176. Well Permit Tax
177. Workers Compensation Tax
6 minutes ago… Cathy asks, Congress does the spending. both parties are totally fiscally irresponsible. they earn six figures with full benefits for life…WHY???
PS reply: Cathy, a good question! It’s not because we approved of it. They gave themselves the raises, not us. Yes, both parties are guilty of excessive spending. It’s the nature of government expand it’s role in our lives. When it does a new law or regulation involves another layer of costly bureaucracy. Over an extended period of time, a 100 or so years, government become so large it’s lethargic and totally inefficient. In general terms, both parties are caught up in this and the longer our representatives remain in Washington the more indoctrinated or addicted they become to the Nanny State. History says 200 years is usually the maximum life for a democracy and then it has to be all torn down and restarted. -Jack
Alternative News tip: Obama’s SSN found to be fraudulent.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/obamas-social-security-number-challenged/
I found a few words of wisdom on a tax lawyers blog that should be emailed to all of our representatives on a regular basis:
Thomas Jefferson:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Alexander Hamilton:
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.
John Adams:
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
James Madison:
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
George Washington:
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
Benjamin Franklin:
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.
Don’t forget the Hokum,Schwab,Grundler,Goloff, Walker Tax. If ya want you can just shorten it to the Gang of 5 Tax.
This will be the new tax on paper grocery bags when they outlaw plastic ones. It will be anywhere from 10 to 25 cents per bag.
And even then they may at a later date outlaw paper grocery bags.
These dictators want to tax you and micromanage every aspect of your life, right down to deciding if a retailer will be allowed to provide you with a damn bag.
They are thugs and tyrants who want control over your life and your money.
Had enough of them yet or do you want more?
Dang, Zed, ya better be careful.
You’ll wind up like me and be labeled a birther and a truther and a denialist.
That’s what happens when you tell the truth to those who can’t handle the truth -> the non-truthers.
Now Jack, let’s also not forget that we pay tax on tax.
For instance, look carefully at your receipt the next time you buy a 6 pack of soda.
What you will see is the CRV tax AND sales tax even though soda is not taxable (at least for now and as long as you do not buy it at a restaurant or other food preparation place).
Now Jack, why are you paying sales tax? Because CRV tax is taxable!!! You literally pay tax on a tax.
Now Jack, I know you have a lot of pull. I don’t know how you did it but you got Tax Increase Tommy (TIT) to back down on that sales tax increase of his.
So Jack, I’m counting on you to knock down these outrageous taxes on taxes.
I know you can do it!
Joseph, you are right and I recall that excise tax on tires is added on then the state tax is calculated on that whenever you buy tires.
I’ll do my best to fight against the ridiculous taxes, but I’m just a nobody. However, there is strength in numbers and if enough nobodies protest, maybe something will get done about it.
And Jack, let’s not forget that CRV tax and the associated sales tax is not just on soda containers.
For instance, buy a bottle of cranberry juice and you will be taxed on the bottle with CRV tax and sales tax.
Do you really pay each and everyone of these 171 taxes. If you do then must be having some hard time getting the books and accounts done for you. I am really amazed by the list. Thanks for sharing.
a.s., people pay all sorts of convoluted taxes. Just look at all the different taxes in your phone or utility bills.
Also, many taxes are passed along to the consumer without the consumer even realizing it. These taxes are passed along to the consumer in the price of the item or service and are not line itemed out when the consumer pays for the product or service.
Old news.
I heard Sean Hannity say this week that 47% do not pay taxes! All them guys on the radio say this is not true.
Either the radio guys are lying to us every time they say it, or you are lying to us, right now.
Which is it?
So many people don’t realize that business do not pay taxes. They add the cost of the tax to their bill and the customer pays it. Similar to the restraurant receipt, but you don’t see it.
Business are just tax collectors. Taxing them more means more going out of our pockets until we can’t afford to pay forcing the business’ to close putting more people out of work.