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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 30 January 2008 12:04
ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno on Tuesday called for the state to prosecute American Indian retailers and others for failing to pay some $1 billion in sales and excise taxes.Speaking at the annual meeting of the New York Association of Counties, and later to reporters, Bruno said Gov. Eliot Spitzer must enforce state law and collect the taxes to help the estimated $4.4 billion budget gap.
“How do you collect taxes? If people don’t pay taxes they end up getting prosecuted,” Bruno said. “I mean if you don’t pay your taxes, if your company doesn’t pay … what’ll happen?”