Arkansas Use Tax

Petition


To: Arkansas Tax Offices and Lawmakers

*"Sales and Use Tax:
Use Tax is a tax on tangible personal property purchased out-of-state and brought into Arkansas for use, storage, consumption, or distribution. The tax is designed to assure fair competition between Arkansas businesses and out-of-state businesses. Businesses and individuals should pay Use Tax if they:

a. purchased items outside Arkansas that would be taxable if purchased in Arkansas (including items from catalogues, TV advertisements, magazines, the Internet, etc.)
b. use, store, consume, or distribute these items in Arkansas, and
c. have not paid Arkansas sales tax or an equivalent amount to another state.
*{Examples of items subject to Use Tax include records, CD's, books, furniture, jewelry, clothing, food, hunting and fishing gear, etc}

*Source State of Arkansas Offical Website

We feel that the Arkansas User Tax is both unfair and unconstitutional. Especially in the fact that is is being applied only to buyers of internet cigarettes which is discriminatory at best.

As citizens and taxpayers,we the undersigned believe that we should have the choice of where to best spend our money without interference or penalties from the state. Anything other than freedom of where we trade is the hand of the government controlling yet another area of our lives.

We are asking that either this tax law be struck down or evenly applied throughout the state and not in the current discriminatory fashion.

Eliminating the rights of the people has never solved any problem. Prohibition should have taught us that.

Signed