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Article #855Re: Paying Sales tax twice
From: brett
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1986 17:54
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1986 17:54
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> > > If I end up having to pay this tax, can I pay them 626,018
> > >pennies? Can they refuse to accept pennies as legal tender? And
>
> If you have a free checking account (and you don't pay for checks)
> you could send them lots and lots of checks (which they have to process).
> Also, if banking regulations haven't changed, you can write a check on
> most anything provided that name, date, bank name, payee and amount are
> there. I recollect people doing it on watermellons, fish and other
> items. Of course I don't recommend doing any of these things :).
> Glenn Tenney
If I were a bank branch manager, I would be reluctant to honor
a check written on the back of a fish. I would probably try to
think of a reason for not cashing it; maybe I would return the
check for insuf"fish"ent funds.....
Besides where would you keep your cancelled fish?
--
Brett Fleisch
University of California Los Angeles
LOCUS Research Group
3804-f Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: (213) 825-2756, (213) 474-5317
brett@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
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