When I paid my prop tax at the Treasurer's office last week, I noticed a small pamphlet on the counter describing Wyomings "Use Tax". It went on to explain that if you bought something from out of state via personal shopping, mail order, Internet, etc that you still owed a "use tax" when the property was brought into Wyoming.
Its more of an issue for small businesses and larger who buy a lot of things for resale and use some of them in house.
At the level where an individual has to worry about it usually gets into a very big ticket item, or items. If you do a lot of
business on e-bay is probably the most common one. Say you buy 600 pounds of foam peanuts, and all the packing materials
to go with them from New Jersey. At that level you go and bug your local accountant, they'll give you a cheap sheet, and maybe
a quickbooks template.
Or if you smoke 4-5 packs a day, and the horseflies die when they bite you. You get the smokes from out of state, and get a few
threatening letters saying you had better pay up or else. Not wanting to go a day without your fix you decided to pay on at least
part of your consumption as a hedge in case someone gets bored and comes around. Most likely they'll run away from the stench,
but in the event they have a hasmat suit and oxygen bottles to get inside of your toxic smoke cloud, you'll be prepared to show
that you paid your fair share of extortion.
