The Making Of Donald Trump (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
On another day, he bought jewelry that cost $15,000. It, too, was mailed out of state, sent to the Connecticut home of his mentor and lawyer, the notorious Roy Cohn. Both boxes were empty. Mailing empty boxes is a way to evade sales taxes on jewelry, furs, and other expensive items easily shipped through the mail. Under New York law, as in most other states, a visitor who buys goods and has them shipped to her home state does not have to pay New York sales tax. In theory, the buyers then owe an equivalent tax to their home state, known as a use tax, but that levy is only lightly enforced. It was almost never enforced in 1983. Once New York sales tax auditors got privy to this scam, it was easy to find the tax evaders. They did not have to comb through every individual receipt for the twenty-eight-month period, ending in March 1983, that the investigation covered. In its shipping logs, Bulgari had put an asterisk next to the name of every customer who received an empty box. Then, to save a little bit of money, Bulgari affixed only enough postage to cover the cost of mailing the empty box, not the weight of the jewelry.
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