Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1977 Page: 4 of 10
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THE RIO GRANDE HERALD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1977
PAGE 4
Texas
Taxe$
By BOB BULLOCK, State Comptroller
Austin-Every person or
business entity in Texas
selling goods covered by the
state sales tax must have a
"Limited Sales Tax Permit"
issued by this office and must
collect the sales tax and send
it in to us on a regular basis.
That covers just about
every body--from the guy
selling handmade trinkets on
the street comer every
Saturday morning all the way
to the giant chain department
stores.
And I'm sure that nearly
all of the hundreds of
thousands of retailers covered
by the Texas sales tax law do
have their permits. The vast
majority of businessmen are
extremely cooperative in this
role--which amounts to
serving as ex-officio tax
collectors.
But there are always a few
holdouts. My field offices
regularly turn up businesses
operating without permits.
Some didn't know better, and
some just didn't want to be
bothered; most aren't
collecting the tax at all, and a
very few are collecting it but
not sending it in.
It would be nearly
impossible for my field
offices to canvass the entire
state and locate every
business operating illegally
without a permit. And,
frankly, it might not prove to
be a very sound investment of
my manpower.
So 1 decided to ask the
public to help me. The sales
tax is money YOU pay to
support your government,
and 1 know you're as
interested as I am in seeing
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PRESENTED BY THE
STATE BAR OF TEXAS
that it gets where it's
supposed to.
In December, my office
issued new gold-colored
"Limited Sales Tax Permits"
to every one of the 290,931
retailers who are supposed to
have them. The new permits
replaced the old green ones,
which hadn't been reissued
since the inception of the
sales tax. Many had become
illegible, incorrect or had
even been lost.
Every one of the new
permits carries in bold type a
reminder to the retailer that
the law requires that each
permit be displayed
prominently in the place of
business.
What this means is that
when you're paying your
sales tax, you ought to be
able to glance up on the wall
and see that gold-colored
"Limited Sales Tax Permit".
If you don't, and the
retailer can't produce it, he
might be doing business
illegally.
You would be doing
yourself and us a favor if you
would call the nearest
Comptroller's field office and
report any such case.
if you have any
state tax problems
or questions, contact
your local
co mp troller s field
office or call
toll-free
1-800-252-5555.
Consumers should drink
pasteurized milk. Avoid raw -
milk and cheeses, because -
various diseases such as
tuberculosis and brucellosis are
carried in unpasteurized dairy
products. Mrs. Mary Sweeten,
foods and nutrition specialist
with the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service, The Texas
A&M University System, says.
When buying a used car, be
sure to get a written mileage
disclosure statement just
before completing the sale, Ms.
Claudia Kerbel, consumer
information specialist with the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, The Texas A&M
University System, says.
Q: I've got i cyclone fence
along the back of my prop-
erty, which adjoins an
apartment house parking
lot. The fence is being
pushed down by cars in the
apartment complex, and I've
written the owner several
times. However, the apart-
ment is owned by a large
corporation in another city
and I can't get them to com-
municate with me. Can I
take steps to get them to re-
pair or replace my fence?
A: If a fence constructed
on a homeowner's property
is being damaged by an ad
joining property owner, the
homeowner may sue the
neighbor to recover for dam-
ages to the property.
Q: If I mail a traffic ticket
with a check or money order
sufficient to pay the fine for
a traffic offense, is this an
admission of guilt?
A: Most traffic tickets
have a blank where you
must sign to enter a plea of
guilty. If you desire not to
plead guilty, you can mail
the ticket without your
signature along with the
payment of the fine, and a
plea of nolo contendere will
be entered for you. A plea of
nolo contendere, commonly
called a "no contest" plea,
could become important
should a lawsuit be filed as a
result of the traffic offense.
In a personal injury suit, a
plea of guilty in a traffic
offense is admissable as
evidence to be used in deter-
mining who was legally at
fault in an accident.
Q: My husband and I are
retired and have a 175-acre
farm. All of our eight child-
ren are married. Neither
one of us has a will. When
we die, will our children
receive all of our property?
A: A surviving spouse
would share ownership of
the couple's community
property with the couple's
children after the death of
one spouse who left no will.
This shared ownership
would result because the
one-half share of the com-
munity property owned by
the spouse who died would
pass to the children. If the
surviving spouse does not
remarry or dispose of the
land by sale or gift, the re-
maining one-half ownership
would pass to the children at
the death of the surviving
spouse if no will was left.
Q: We're planning on buy-
ing five acres in the country
with a house. But we dis-
covered this property is sub-
ject to outstanding mineral
rights. Because we're buy-
ing the property to use as a
residence rather than for
mineral exploration, we're
not concerned that someone
else owns this interest.
However, we're not sure
whether this mineral inter-
est will affect our rights to
the property.
A: An outstanding miner-
al interest may seriously
affect the use of property as
a residence. The owner of a
mineral interest may have
the right to enter the prop-
erty and removd the miner-
als from around your house
in a reasonable manner.
Donna Bust
Weed Haul
Biggest
it it
A few financial backers of
nearly nine tons of marijuana
are out a $1 million investment
today after two trucks of the
weed were seized Tuesday in
Donna.
Drug enforcement agents and
Customs officers confiscated
the illegal weed in an early
morning raid.
A record 18,120 pounds of
marijuana was seized, destined
for northern suppliers. Ac-
cording to state officials,
yesterday's bust was largest in
Texas history, passing the old
mark of 17,790 pounds con-
fiscated in the same area in
December.
A Donna man was arrested
under $750,000 bond. Jancinto
Villarreal, Jr. was arrested at
the scene where the two large
trucks were raided. He is being
held in Brownsville.
According to the McAllen
Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration head, Don Smith,
the raid was the result of "an
extensive investigation" and
more arrests were probable.
Smith estimated that
financial backers paid about $1
million wholesale for the
marijuana. He estimated that
the retail value ranged from $2-
$4 million, depending on supply.
A stafe source in Houston this
morning commented that the
weeds value was about $5
million on the streets.
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New York Yankee first base-
man Chris Chambiiss is a na-
tive of Dayton, Ohio. His ninth-
inning home run in the decisive
American league playoff game
against Kansas City put the
Yankees in the 1976 World
Series.
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Solis, Tony. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1977, newspaper, February 24, 1977; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194600/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.