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[TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax"
    #13339244 - 10/15/10 08:56 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Money Collected with "Crack Tax"
October 14, 2010 - myfoxmemphis.com

Millions Seized Before Drug Bust Convictions



MEMPHIS, Tenn. - It's illegal to sell drugs in Tennessee, but it's legal for the state to tax drug dealers. The 2005 Crack Tax allowed law enforcement in Tennessee to seize money and property for drug busts, if the person had not paid a crack tax.

Between 2005 and 2009, the state seized more than $10 million worth of cash and property from drug busts. The Crack Tax allowed law enforcement agencies to seize property "before" a person was convicted of a crime.

Last year, the Tennessee Supreme Court struck down the "Crack Tax" as unconstitutional by saying the state could not tax an illegal activity.

Now Tennessee owes hundreds of drug dealers millions of dollars in refunds. Over the summer, the state passed another version of the crack tax.

One of the lawmakers that voted for the crack tax, is Collierville Republican Curry Todd. Todd joined FOX13 to talk about the “Crack Tax.”

Since the Supreme Court struck down the original Crack Tax, Tennessee has had to issue four million dollars in refunds. But there are roughly 2,500 more people who paid the tax, who have not received any money back.

The attorney, who got the original crack tax thrown out, recently told FOX13 how the state went too far with the crack tax.

Between 2005 and 2009, the state of Tennessee cashed in on people busted with drugs, who had not paid a tax on those drugs and the attorney who challenged the crack tax, says the state was ruthless and abusive in seizing drugs, cash and properties.

"They were chasing people down the halls of courtrooms trying to get the gold chains off their necks, braking into their kids homes, taking their kids piggy banks, they were taking property that belonged to the family for generations," said ???

"They" were police, sheriff's departments and department of revenue agents across the state and they were operating under the authority of the "Crack Tax” which Knoxville attorney Phil Lamonaca would successfully challenge in the state supreme court last year.

"You can’t tax an illegal privilege because we don't give drug dealers the privilege of selling drugs. So it's not a privilege, therefore it can't be a privilege tax, and so they threw it out."

Before it was thrown out, casual users of illegal drugs like cocaine and marijuana were being accessed big fines and the fines were automatic, assessed "before" the case was ruled on in court.

"Anybody that had five or six or seven grams of marijuana was labeled a drug dealer. Once they found people in possession of that much or more, and there was not a tax stamp affixed or stuck to the drugs, then they would assess tax and penalties and interests, accumulating astronomically quickly."

In one year alone, 2006, the state assessed more than $40 million in drug fines.

Actual collections were much lower, $10 million while the Crack Tax was legal until the Supreme Court made it go up in smoke last year.

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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: veggie]
    #13339261 - 10/15/10 09:06 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

just goes to show what these pigs are really after $$$

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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: veggie]
    #13339455 - 10/15/10 10:04 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Dicks!


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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: auronlives69]
    #13339497 - 10/15/10 10:14 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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auronlives69 said:
just goes to show what these pigs are really after $$$




Yep. They buy all kinds of shiny toys with that loot.

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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: Le_Canard]
    #13339769 - 10/15/10 11:10 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

When "Department of Revenue" officers are the ones digging through your shit you can bet it's not for anything remotely related to justice.

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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: dokunai]
    #13339797 - 10/15/10 11:18 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

It's shit like this that makes the US lose all credibility when they tell foreign governments they need to crack down on corruption.


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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: Green_T]
    #13340092 - 10/15/10 12:27 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Profiting like this with something that is so damn addictive that people cant help but do it once they are on it is absolutely despicable.

Someone should drug cops and bullshit lawmakers with some very addictive substances. Fucking pigs. This makes me very angry.

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Re: [TN] Money Collected with "Crack Tax" [Re: dokunai]
    #13340218 - 10/15/10 12:56 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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dokunai said:
When "Department of Revenue" officers are the ones digging through your shit you can bet it's not for anything remotely related to justice.




Yeah no kidding.  You'd think they would at least try to not be so obvious about it lol.


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