Do you collect gold / coins ?

[SteamWake]

Supprise !


Those already outraged by the president's health care legislation now have a new bone of contention -- a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny.


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=11211611

[Tribesman]

wow self employed people and small business have to declare their spending and their income for tax purposes:yawn:

[SteamWake]

wow self employed people and small business have to declare their spending and their income for tax purposes:yawn:

Not to mention private citizens. ;)

Perhaps the 'law' is not so bad, what is so bad is it was 'slipped' into the healthcare bill.

What does accumulating wealth have to do with the health care bill?

[AVGWarhawk]

what is so bad is it was 'slipped' into the healthcare bill.



:yep:

Now we know why the government is completely bungled.

[Oberon]

There's a risk you might swallow the gold coins? :hmmm:

[TLAM Strike]

There's a risk you might swallow the gold coins? :hmmm:

Yea if you about to be hauled off to a POW camp... :03:

[Jimbuna]

No different in HM Revenue and Customs requirements here in the UK....apart from the way it was sneaked in I suppose :hmmm: