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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1467964, member: 19065"]But, that's assuming you bought the mower in a standard traceable transaction to begin with. What's to say one didn't have it given to them, inherited in a family's possessions, didn't win it in a sweepstakes, buy it second hand, receive it free in a broken state and repaired themself, modified the mower from several other parts of other similarly broken and cast away mowers, and so many other difficult to account for ways of obtaining something...</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the size of the population and the quantity of goods and materials out there, there simply isn't time for the taxman to track it all and every non-retail or wholesale transaction that transpires between people. It would be cost inefficient for the taxman to come knocking, tallying and checking up on everyone and the everything they own, and further what they maintain year-to-year in their possession. Bartering in such a manner can and does eclipse their taxing capability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1467964, member: 19065"]But, that's assuming you bought the mower in a standard traceable transaction to begin with. What's to say one didn't have it given to them, inherited in a family's possessions, didn't win it in a sweepstakes, buy it second hand, receive it free in a broken state and repaired themself, modified the mower from several other parts of other similarly broken and cast away mowers, and so many other difficult to account for ways of obtaining something... Given the size of the population and the quantity of goods and materials out there, there simply isn't time for the taxman to track it all and every non-retail or wholesale transaction that transpires between people. It would be cost inefficient for the taxman to come knocking, tallying and checking up on everyone and the everything they own, and further what they maintain year-to-year in their possession. Bartering in such a manner can and does eclipse their taxing capability.[/QUOTE]
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