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Killer Tomato2/16/2009 8:17:03 am PST

re: #1030 MandyManners

How do they enforce that nonsense? Invade your house to see what you own?

You’ll love this - (from a Union Leader article)

New Hampshire draws Massachusetts residents to its retail locations through a combination of tax-free shopping at malls and convenience stores in border towns, as well as low tobacco taxes and low state-controlled liquor prices.

New Hampshire and Massachusetts have been engaged in cross-border tax fights for decades. It became heated in 1970s when agents from Massachusetts staked out New Hampshire liquor store parking lots and recorded Bay State license plate numbers.

Massachusetts also got tough on sales tax enforcement actions, pressing a legal requirement that New Hampshire retailers collect the Massachusetts sales tax on any goods they delivered or installed for Massachusetts customers.

The Governor of NH sent NH State Troopers to the liquor store parking lots to ticket the Mass agents for loitering.