Millions of Tax Cheats
In this column, which originally appeared in the March 3, 2004, edition of San Jose, California's The Mercury News, editorial writer Miguel Helft explains how calls for "no new Internet taxes" are "nothing more than an attempt to rob states and local governments of billions from an old tax they count on to provide essential services."
You Didn't Pay Sales Tax on That Amazon Book, Did You?
By Miguel Helft
You're probably a tax cheat.
The Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) recently announced its second annual Get Caught Reading Photo Contest. A variation of the Get Caught Reading campaign sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and the Magazine Publishers of America, which features posters and magazine ads of famous people reading, the GLBA contest calls for regular (non-famous) people to shoot pictures of other regular people reading.
On Thursday, March 4, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the winners of its 2003 book awards at a ceremony at the New School in New York City. The Fiction prize was awarded to Edward P. Jones for The Known World (Amistad Press). Jones' novel was a September/October 2003 Book Sense 76 pick.