Bill Brown wrote:
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that fingers get ahead of the brain at times when suffering from jet lag.

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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Katie wrote:
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Scotch whisky to a foreign country and cart it about before returning?
Unless of course it gets drunk along the way. Hmmmmm.... Ah, yes!
And to think I packed me own bottle in my suitcase this last time to
have it on board ship.
I'll try to remember that for next year's cruise.

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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On Oct 31, 11:39*am, Harlan Lunsford <hlunsf...[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:

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If it's Scotch then it's whisky, not whiskey.

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On Oct 31, 8:39*am, Harlan Lunsford <hlunsf...[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:
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Harlan, you can buy from the DF shops in US airports on the way OUT of
the US. You're right, though, on the way back in you have to use the
shop in the foreign airport or on the plane. http://www.dutyfreeamericas.com/duty_free.cfm

Katie

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In article <VyFOk.56298$Ep1.24983[at]bignews2.bellsouth.net> ,
Harlan Lunsford <hlunsford[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:

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Not that I've noticed (but I can only make purchases when leaving).

Seth

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Katie wrote:
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Only citizens of countries other than the USA may make purchases in duty
free shops in the USA. When I return from abroad, like last Saturday
night, there was no way I could have accessed those shops. But any "duty
free" purchases on the Delta flight back from Athens would, like all
other foreign purchases, be subject to use tax here at home. By the
time of that flight, however, I already had my quota of good Scotch whiskey!

ChEAr$,
Harlan

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On Oct 30, 4:49*am, "parrisbraes...[at]yahoo.ca"
<parrisbraes...[at]yahoo.ca> wrote:
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Well, I think it would be kind of nice if the duty-free shops IN THE
US were to post a sign or something warning customers that purchases
brought back into the US could be subject to use tax in the customer's
home state. But you're right, it's not their job, and I didn't mean
to imply that it was.

Katie

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On Oct 29, 3:35*pm, Katie <katiej_1...[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
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In this case, the foreign country would be the USA as the purchases
were being made on return to the USA. As for the duty-free stores not
informing you, they are not in the business of providing legal advice
- they are selling a product. 'sides, they can not be expected to know
the rules for every country.

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On Oct 26, 8:36*pm, rdad...[at]panix.com (Dick Adams) wrote:
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Purchases at duty-free shops are presumed to be purchased for use in a
foreign country -- since in order to buy duty and tax free, you must
be leaving the US, generally for at least 48 hours. If you bring your
purchases back to your home state on your return to the US for use
there, you're generally subject to the use tax, since you didn't pay
sales tax on the original purchase.

The duty-free stores generally won't tell you that.

Katie

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Don Priebe <priebe[at]iname.com> wrote:
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American Indians deserve our support - afterall they have
been fighting terrorism and illegal immigration since 1492.

Dick

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Don't know about your state, but NY wants its cut. You bought it without
paying sales tax and brought it into the state.

(Unless of course you're talking about cigarettes from the reservation smoke
shop. We don't try very hard to collect those taxes.
<nudge> <nudge> <wink> <wink> )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/nyregion/02smoke.html
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Don Priebe <priebe[at]iname.com> wrote:

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It never occurred to me that purchases made at a duty-free
store were subject to use tax.

Dick

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It's a toss up as long as you drink both of them straight.

[Required tax content] and pay the use tax on them when you bring them home.
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In article <7C5Nk.53355$rD2.35532[at]bignews4.bellsouth.net> , hlunsford[at]bellsouth.net (Harlan Lunsford) writes:
| Dan Lanciani wrote:
| > In article <izSIk.5365$YU2.964[at]nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com> , makbo[at]pacbell.net (Mark Bole) writes:
| > | Bill wrote:
| > | > jack[at]yahoo.org (jack) posted:
| > | | > | > > > The specific answer to your last question, "if
| > | > > > you used a professional who filed paper ..."
| > |
| > | [...]
| > |
| > | > > So, if you used a professional who filed paper,
| > | > > you DO NOT get an estimated form from the
| > | > > IRS.
| > |
| > | I still don't see where use of a paid preparer (one who has to sign the
| > | return) is of any relevance. It's paper vs. e-filing, AFAIK.
| | > I've never e-filed or used a preparer and they still stopped sending
| > me estimated tax forms...
|
| But you did use tax softare, right?

No, just my Uniball pen and a non-programmable TI calculator
from the 70's.

Dan Lanciani
ddl[at]danlan.*com

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In article <nB5Nk.53354$rD2.22989[at]bignews4.bellsouth.net> ,
Harlan Lunsford <hlunsford[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:
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And welcome home, World Traveller. I'll bet ouzo doesn't compare
to scotch.
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ArtKamlet at a o l dot c o m Columbus OH K2PZH

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Dan Lanciani wrote:
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But you did use tax softare, right?

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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Mark Bole wrote:

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Unless you use tax software to do it. In my own case I naturally use my
office software to prepare my own return and I, too, was deleted from
the 1040es mailings. So that is how I surmised is wasn't dependent on
using a paid preparer, or even a volunteer preparer e.g. AARP, but
instead tax software. I suppose if I download blank 1040ES forms and
resume hand printing same for my quarterly payments, I might regain the
status of being on their mailing list.

Anyway, for clients who noticed this last year, I calmly explained to
them that the reason they didn't receive printed vouchers was that IRS
had placed them in the "FOH" status.
Huh? FOH?
Sure, I explained; Friend of Harlan.

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Ain't that the truth! (as I return from vacation and reluctantly update
my retirement accounts' spreadsheet.)

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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Bill wrote:
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But we Enrolled Agents, EA's, want to make darn sure the public knows
the difference, as I'm sure you do.

So for any laymen reading this, there are "agents", and then there are
"Enrolled Agents" (EA's). Any one can be an agent for another, whether
serving under a power of attorney or in other cases. In this respect,
volunteers for AARP, TaxAide, etc etc serve as "agents" of the IRS to
insure compliance.

As an EA however, I am ONLY an agent of the taxpayer/client and licensed
as such by the IRS with conduct governed by the U S Treasury under
certain regulations known as Circular 230.

Hope this helps to keep things straight.

Actually we EA's have been batting this gamecock around for years now,
arguing time to time for other possible designations that would make
sure the public doesn't somehow mistake us for "agents" OF the IRS.
But no one can come up with a generally accepted agent position (GAAP!)
or definition.

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

But an Enrolled Agent

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Mark Bole <makbo[at]pacbell.net> wrote in
news:izSIk.5365$YU2.964[at]nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com:

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I won't send my return through a third party, but maybe that is not
considered a "major excuse".

scott s.
...

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In article <izSIk.5365$YU2.964[at]nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com> , makbo[at]pacbell.net (Mark Bole) writes:
| Bill wrote:
| > jack[at]yahoo.org (jack) posted:
| | > > > The specific answer to your last question, "if
| > > > you used a professional who filed paper ..."
|
| [...]
|
| > > So, if you used a professional who filed paper,
| > > you DO NOT get an estimated form from the
| > > IRS.
|
| I still don't see where use of a paid preparer (one who has to sign the
| return) is of any relevance. It's paper vs. e-filing, AFAIK.

I've never e-filed or used a preparer and they still stopped sending
me estimated tax forms...

Dan Lanciani
ddl[at]danlan.*com

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