Armed Police Raid Tennessee Diner Looking for $180,000 in Back Taxes… For Two Months Worth of Sales
Samantha E. Williams and Gannett Tennessee
Tennessean
May 25th, 2012
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“These men came in with badges around their necks and kicked my customers out. It was like a police raid,” Perkins said of the proceedings Wednesday morning.
Lunch diners were disappointed to be greeted by a closed sign and several postings stating City Cafe was closed because of “nonpayment of Tennessee State taxes by virtue of a levy issued by the Department of Revenue, Tax Enforcement Division … ”
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“I had an interesting cup of coffee this morning,” said Henry Phillips of Henry’s Florist shop, located at the corner of Church and East Main streets. “Just after 9 this morning, they asked us to leave. They waited until the bulk of people had completed their meals and then ushered us out.”
Perkins took over the 100-plus-year-old business in 2007. The downtown restaurant, touted as being the “original meat-and-three” place in the city, is at 113 E. Main St.
“I had no idea this was coming,” Perkins said. “They did not alert me.”
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The Department of Revenue requires businesses to pay sales tax based on the income of sales made. Perkins said the state is asking for $180,000 for two months. Based on the 9.75 percent sales tax in Murfreesboro, that would account for more than $1 million in sales made at the restaurant.
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States want you to pay estimated taxes before you make the money. That is why so many foreign owned businesses they do not have to pay taxes and get money from the state and fed to come here. Big corporations. Business owners work hard and are not lazy sounds like not much of a reward.
@Evie, IT ain’t about taxs anymore,I think now there trying to break all business owners so the country will be on welfare,then take the mark of the beast to get food for their kids.the bible says this will happen!!!!to bad america threw our LORD in the trash or they would have seen this coming,read your bible the whole story is there for all to read(if you know how to read)I know the government can’t,I think most of them are from california!!!
Bet no tax office would do that to Barney Fwanks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, ANY black or muslim owned business or any other damned politician that owes taxes and I suspect $180,000 may be more than the diner made in a year! ARM up White people
Had my State do the same to me, this is why I gave no business now. Had to pay sells tax every month, problem was 95% of my business was out of State. Every few months owed them bout 5 bucks. If no State sells no tax, but had to send in form every month with 0 (zero) on it. for the last five years of business they would say each year I owed them upwards of $8000 plus a $600 plus penalty. They never could explain their “SPECIAL” formula for figuring out how much was owed, funny thing is out of 15 years only one year total was over $100 this was the whole 12 months, The reason I owed was because “I didn’t send in a months”, it was always the same month APRIL, kept telling me I needed to send them in with return receit request. That cost was more than what they got from me. So moral of the story I believe was, they weren’t getting enough from me and eventually took my business license.
california screwed their business owners till they left the state,and no one cared till they were all unemployed.now they cry they don’t have any money and there to stupid to even find out why.I’ll bet tennesse is being run by the morons that left cailfornia? they have ruined every state they have moved to,thats why when they come to colorado we tell’em to go back to california,there’s so many of them here now, colorado is getting like california in the rockies.AND you do not want those people in your state…..
Yep when they talk about toooo much regulation it is only because they want big gov. Or corporate cartel even more power. Like we should feel so priviledged to work and give all of our money to legalized bribery. They keep crying broke to steal even more.
thats what happens when you let N IGGERS run things
@anon, Right you are ANON, we have ample evidence of the inherent lack of business accumen. As soon as one of em get elected, the big chief syndrom comes out. I am really coming to hat eht fuc*** animals and their thuggish ways. ARM UP WHITE PEOPLE.
This is county and state.
All the more reason to forget about running a licensed business and get into the underground economy!