'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
acc'ding to this there are reforms schedual for 2009 - the interesting part is the % of households that would acctualy be taxed
there have been movements to move the date to sooner than 2009, but those that want it gone would vote for changeing the time line ( acc'ding to this site)
MA is having a two-day "No sales tax" on anything under $2500 (Aug. 13-14).
Doesn't affect clothes since they aren't taxed here anyway.
Big, honking mitt: good. Foul tips, wild pitches, backswings: bad. I vote cups for catchers.
Also, the chest protectors they use in Little League extend down to protect the groin as well.
And if you got a tuxedo, no tax...except on the tie.
Weird. It reminds me of when we had blue laws - you could buy canned food on Sundays, but not a can opener. Paint, but not a paint brush. Weirdness.
MA is having a two-day "No sales tax" on anything under $2500 (Aug. 13-14).
Yeah. I think we're going to try to buy our new dishwasher that weekend. My mother gave us the gift certificate for Christmas, but we haven't had the dosh to pay a plumber to fix some really funky plumbing under the sink.
Originally, the Sales Tax holiday here was slated to be on the Saturday, only. Jewish people organized and complained, because the Saturday date effectively cut Sabbath observant people out of the holiday, and the state actually saw the point of this. This pleases me.
My personal beef with MA sales tax: When I was there shaving cream was not taxed because it was a "necessity." Tampons? Not a necessity, so they were taxed.
Washington has a high sales tax, but no state income tax.
That's what my sister told me, but when I looked at the sales receipt from my purchase at the Nordstorm Rack store near Pike Place Market, and saw that the "high sales tax" was only 8%, I scoffed. I pay 8.75% on just about everything except for magazines and newspapers and still have to pay 3% income tax to the state.
So, bon, how do the tax laws apply to Teppy's primal fear of inheriting her father's debt?
::loves Hec::
Don't think they apply, and then it gets a little out of stuff I know. But AFAIK, what Cindy is saying is right: creditors get a crack at the decedent's assets before you do. If the deceased has no assets, I don't think you become liable for the debt.
::loves bon just a little bit more::
My personal beef with MA sales tax: When I was there shaving cream was not taxed because it was a "necessity." Tampons? Not a necessity, so they were taxed.
I think my head just exploded.
8% sales tax isn't high. I pay 8.75-9% depending on what parish I'm buying in, and state income tax and have very little in the way of services to show for it.
And have no Nordstrom, Rack or otherwise.