Tax man at the gun show
Attendees and sellers at a weekend gun show got a visit from the tax man that some said was unusual, unexpected and unwanted.
And the show’s co-organizer, Don Hill, said the visit from half a dozen representatives of the Texas State Comptroller’s Office may have scared off many potential customers and sellers from the Gun and Knife Show Saturday and Sunday at the Panhandle-South Plains Fairgrounds.
Representatives of the Comptroller’s Office set up a booth for about an hour Saturday morning at the event, approaching people who came to the fair and asking them if they had a state sales tax permit, said Hill, co-owner of the Texas Gun & Knife Association, which operated the Lubbock gun show and others around the state.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I’ve seen that at funshows in Shreveport,LA but never before in Texas. I guess word’s gotten around that sales are up, and the comptroller evidently wants to do his part to keep revenues rolling in.
In SHV, I’ve seen the revenuers descend like a plague on dealers, accompanied by the organizer announcing it over the P.A. system, at the end of the day.
Regards,
Rabbit.