NY Authorities Say UPS Knowingly Shipped Untaxed Cigarettes
Source: ABC News
Authorities said Tuesday they have proof UPS knowingly shipped about 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations to consumers and smoke shops from 2010 to 2014, even though they had agreed more than a decade ago to stop.
New York's attorney general and New York City's law department sued the Atlanta-based shipping giant in 2014, alleging that it ignored clear indications that some of its clients were shipping cigarettes and should have done more to stop the shipments. The city and state allege in their $180 million federal lawsuit that cheap cigarettes increased smoking by New Yorkers while costing $29.7 million in lost tax revenue
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ny-authorities-ups-knowingly-shipped-untaxed-cigarettes-39671081
Greed Rules the Day again in Corporate America, Hand Slap Future Penalty, they have figured the low fine over profit, it will be worth the trouble and a the fine will be Tax deductible like oil spill fines!
scscholar
(2,902 posts)UPS needs to be put out of business.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Along with several other items. Not that they would ever know whats in the box anyway
scscholar
(2,902 posts)but instead one of stores that are branded with the name UPS Store. A couple of friends worked at the counter at UPS here in Seattle, and they quit over being forced to ship guns. Their boss made them touch boxes with guns in them!
7962
(11,841 posts)Must be easy to get a good job in Seattle
Are guns the only things these 2 folks dont like? Because UPS likely ships a lot of things many find "undesirable"!!
phazed0
(745 posts)They certainly allow for it and I have used it for such before.
7962
(11,841 posts)But I wonder if they'd ever even know one was in the box, unless you bought insurance for it
Indydem
(2,642 posts)That you have an irrational fear of guns.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)Poe's law is an Internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers for sincere expressions of the parodied views.
Okay, I'm stumped.
phazed0
(745 posts)knowing that the shipping company is responsible and not the sender. Whut!?
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)unless they know (or "should have known" about the illegal status of an item being shipped.
christx30
(6,241 posts)workers at the warehouses to be tax inspectors. And pay them more.
I used to do that work for a while.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Congress would call for it to be shut down.
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Indydem
(2,642 posts)After all, Eric Garner was being harassed for selling untaxed cigarettes, because the job of the police is clearly to collect taxes on cigarettes, no matter what the cost.
(My post actually has nothing to do with UPS, and is really leveled at NY state, where collecting taxes on cigarettes is paramount!)
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)and i have a casino near by......think i will go back and buy a pack of cigs and mail them to someone.....
cause a flagrant lawbreaker is just the kind of guy i am......
christx30
(6,241 posts)has a job to do. You wouldn't ask the tax authorities to carry your stuff from A to B.
Why should UPS employees to become tax agents? Or, honestly, give a crap about the problem? Any harm being done with having untaxed cigarettes is really in the abstract. A bomb, guns, hazardous materials going through the system can cause damage to people and property. Someone that can buy a pack of cigarettes for $3 instead of $15? That's not really what I would call a problem. Or, more accurately, MY problem.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)when it comes to intoxicating substances, civil authorities are always bad.