Under the strictest sense of the law, United States citizen owes taxes on anything sold or traded. If traded we owe taxes on the value of items exchanged.
That is the strictest sense of the law though. No one really enforced it to the point that it has disappeared from the minds of most people. Ask your tax accountant about it.
@ 56 yrs old .. .gov been stealing my money all my life, LAW ? who cares, done getting robbed. Paying like ? 50-80% tax on every $ made ... time for everyone to just NOT do this ..
Not saying it is fair but it is the world we live in. I am reading an investment/biography book and the author calls money we work for "50% money" because by the time we have any left, it is half of what we started with (after income tax and the various sales taxes regular citizens pay).
Very true.
50-80 %