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Re: booze across state lines? legal?
Posted: March 21, 2011 2:59 pm
by bravedave
The Lost Manatee wrote:If you purchase liquor outside of the State of Utah and then bring it into the state, you are violating the state laws. This is because the state is counting on your tax dollars, since there is a minimum mark up of 67% on the price plus a hefty tax added to the liquor sold in the State Liquor stores. Utah will go so far as to sending police officers into the neighboring states to observe Utahans purchasing liquor in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. Then when the citizen drives back into Utah, the police pull them over, cite them and take the booze.
Maryland used to do this too. (Calvert-Woodley shoppers, you know what I'm talking about.) Now our state is considering a huge tax increase on booze. If passed, I expect to see this tactic revived.
Re: booze across state lines? legal?
Posted: March 22, 2011 10:25 pm
by Rabbitz
The Lost Manatee wrote:If you purchase liquor outside of the State of Utah and then bring it into the state, you are violating the state laws. This is because the state is counting on your tax dollars, since there is a minimum mark up of 67% on the price plus a hefty tax added to the liquor sold in the State Liquor stores. Utah will go so far as to sending police officers into the neighboring states to observe Utahans purchasing liquor in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. Then when the citizen drives back into Utah, the police pull them over, cite them and take the booze.
Land of the free indeed...
Re: booze across state lines? legal?
Posted: March 23, 2011 5:14 am
by aeroparrot
The Lost Manatee wrote:If you purchase liquor outside of the State of Utah and then bring it into the state, you are violating the state laws. This is because the state is counting on your tax dollars, since there is a minimum mark up of 67% on the price plus a hefty tax added to the liquor sold in the State Liquor stores. Utah will go so far as to sending police officers into the neighboring states to observe Utahans purchasing liquor in Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. Then when the citizen drives back into Utah, the police pull them over, cite them and take the booze.
Doesn't Pennsylvania have a similar law?
Re: booze across state lines? legal?
Posted: March 23, 2011 12:48 pm
by JollyMon66
Pa has similar laws BUT you are allowed to bring a certain quantity into the state for personal consumption. I don't know how much that is but I never heard of anyone getting cited. We live about 30 mins from the MD line and 45 from DE so people around here do run over the line to buy booze.