The Rewards

Rewards for Reporting Tax Evaders

For fiscally concerned taxpayers it is your duty to go online and report the possibility of tax evasion and fraud with the NYC Finance Commission:  NYC has offered a special 10% Reward for reports of Cigarette Tax Evaders and the IRS offers 15% – 25% rewards for Federal Tax evaders using IRS Form 211 Application for Reward for Original Information.  The US Postal Service offers rewards of up to $50,000 for unlawful use of postage. Poster 296 – Notice of Reward and Hotline to Inspector General. 

– Cut-n-paste Sample NYC Report: (use nycbutts AT gmail to report anonymously) –

Dear New York City Commissioner of Finance, On _______ date a package containing _______ NYC Butts unlicensed and untaxed cigarettes was deposited in the mail for delivery to: Mr. Michael Bloomberg, City Hall, NY, NY 10007.  I have a reasonable belief Mr. Bloomberg is in possession of these unlicensed and untaxed cigarettes received by mail. Under NY Tax Law section 471, Mr. Bloomberg is required to remit applicable taxes using form CG-15 within 24 hours of receipt. If your records do not indicate receipt of Form CG-15 with payment for the aforementioned cigarette shipment by Mr. Bloomberg than demand is made for investigation of possible tax evasion and fraud.      Failure to remit taxes and report such untaxed cigarettes within 24 hours of receipt would constitute possession of contraband cigarettes. A pattern of such activity are violations under the RICO statutes and Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act: (18 U.S.C. 2341 et seq.)(”CCTA”). Pursuant to TSB-M-03(1)M Enforcement Provisions Regarding… Possession of Cigarettes in New York State:  The New York City Commissioner of Finance is authorized to impose Civil and Criminal penalties for bootlegging a fine of $1 per cigarette as penalty for violations of the cigarette tax imposed by the Administrative Code of the City of New York. As a Fiduciary to NYC, Mr. Bloomberg is held to the highest levels and standards to abide and follow all laws and it would only be proper the maximum penalty be authorized.     Respectfully, Fiscally Concerned Taxpayer

UNFAIR AND UNJUST LAWS

Under NY laws receiving unlicensed and untaxed NYC Butts cigarettes are subject to the payment of State and City taxes within 24 hours of receipt and reported using Form CG-15 Cigarette Use Tax Return. Receiving over 10,000 of these hand made beauties makes it a federal possession and trafficking offense, without tax stamps they are contraband cigarettes.

The law does not care if you ordered them, received them as gifts, didn’t order them, gave them away, threw them away, burned them, smoked them or any other excuse. If you are a NY resident and receive untaxed cigarettes of any kind by mail you are individually responsible and liable for reporting and paying all taxes without exception.

Cigarette means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, regardless of size, shape, or whether such tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco. – Form CG-15

These laws do not differentiate cigarettes between new, used, damaged, recycled, remanufactured, samples, for resale, for personal use.

NYC BUTTS	Federal Tax	NY State Tax	NYC City Tax	Bootlegging Penalty	New Tax Revenues
20	$0.40	$1.50	$1.50	$20.00	$23.40
25	$0.50	$1.88	$1.88	$25.00	$29.26
40	$0.80	$3.00	$3.02	$40.00	$46.82
100	$2.00	$7.50	$7.60	$100.00	$117.10
200	$4.00	$15.00	$15.18	$200.00	$234.18
1,000	$20.00	$75.00	$76.00	$1,000	$1,171
10,000	$200.00	$750.00	$760.00	$10,000	$11,710

In addition to the above $3.40 to $8.53 in new tax revenue due to the state, the civil penalty for possession of unstamped or unlawfully stamped cigarettes is an additional $1 per cigarette received by mail. A carton of 200 NYC Butts cigarettes can potentially generate $234.18 in new tax revenue. Thats $1.17 in new tax revenue per NYC Butt cigarette!!!

So not only are we promoting change to these unfair laws and taxes, we are collectively recycling and increasing the tax revenues while possibly cleaning up corrupt and privileged tax evaders. Mayor Bloomberg may be an oppressive Billionaire but his fortunes can quickly go up in… SMOKE.

Get everyone involved – YOU can make a difference!

– Link to this post to support NYC BUTTS – FREE CIGARETTES.
– Print and distribute NYC Butt labels to retailers with this message.
– Encourage everyone to recycle cigarettes and carcinogenic waste.
– Be fiscally responsible and report suspected tax evasion and fraud.
– Recycle NYC BUTTS cigarettes and send them out by mail today.

NYC Butts is a rare Win – Win collaboration benefiting smokers, non smokers, anti smokers, minors and tax collectors alike!

NYC BUTTS – Free Cigarettes – Promoting Responsible Smoking – Recycling of Cigarettes – New Tax Revenues and Protest of NYC Cigarette Taxes.