New York could learn a thing or two from California. The lesson could make Albany richer by billions of dollars.
I’m talking about a sales-tax enforcement effort that started in the Golden State just two weeks ago. It aims to outlaw “zappers,” which are high-tech cash registers that allow stores, restaurants and other businesses to make transactions — and the tax owed on those sales — disappear.
Jerome Horton, a top tax official in California, said, “Unfortunately, sometimes the criminals are one step ahead of us in the use of technology.”
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