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- From: bills@sequent.com (Bill Sears)
- Subject: Re: Wierd CA Sales Tax Law
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.173654.4627@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
- References: <PHR.92Jul29214647@soda.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul30.164742.9568@tss.com> <1992Jul31.161038.6852@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 17:36:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.161038.6852@cco.caltech.edu> roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder) writes:
- >burke@tss.com (Jim Burke) writes:
- >
- >>Oh, I forgot to mention another piece of the insanity. The Togo's manager
- >>also told me that he has to note whether a cookie has nuts in it or not
- >>because if it has nuts it doesn't get taxed, but if it has no nuts it
- >>gets taxed. This one makes even less sense.
- >
- >This could have to do with nutritional value. The nuts give the cookie some
- >protein and therefore it is no longer a 'junk' food item.
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- When I worked in a convenience store/gas station in WA several years ago,
- this was the case. WA has a state sales tax, but not on grocery items.
- It was interesting to note that candy bars and chewing gum were taxable,
- but the little bags of planters peanuts were not. I was told that if I
- judged the item to have nutritional value, that I was not to charge sales
- tax on that item. In addition, a single can of soda pop was taxable, but
- if you bought a six-pack or two liter bottle it was not. Go figure.
-
- bills
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