[CrazyStat]

> else you wouldn't be paying taxes anyway

That's how they get you.

NC sells "unauthorized substance" tax stamps, which you can buy (in theory) anonymously with cash, to pay your taxes on income from illegal distribution.

Mostly it's an excuse to extract money from people who (obviously) didn't pay their drug taxes [1].

[1] https://ncpolicywatch.com/2021/06/28/the-nc-drug-tax-is-desi...

[mschuster91]

Seriously, there should be a way of challenging a conviction for not paying this tax (or any other tax), if the way to pay the tax is reasonably impossible to use for an average human.

I'd be fine with it if you could buy these stickers at any random store/kiosk/post office (like the tax stamps in Croatia that got phased out last year [1]), if you could mail-order them in advance, or if you could pay them online, and there was a written rule that not just makes it a misdemeanor for DoR staff to forward data, but outright poisons the whole investigation.

[1] https://www.expatincroatia.com/what-is-a-tax-stamp-and-why-d...

[seanmcdirmid]

The IRS makes it really easy to just say you owe money and pay them, without saying much about why you owe them money. So there really isn't an excuse. I assume the NC system is for state taxes, not federal. For the IRS, you just put some numbers down and they usually won't ask for specific details. Later, if you get caught, the IRS will ask if you paid your taxes, and...if you did, they won't get you for tax evasion.