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Odometer fraud, also referred to as "busting miles" (United States) or "clocking" (UK, Ireland and Canada), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Odometer fraud occurs when the seller of a vehicle falsely represents the actual mileage of a vehicle to the buyer.
The Federal Odometer Act, passed in 1972, modified the United States Code to prohibit tampering with a motor vehicle's odometer and to provide safeguards to protect purchasers in the sale of motor vehicles with altered or reset odometers. [1] The Act provides definitions and civil and criminal penalties for odometer fraud.
Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure.By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge.
Delaware: Corporate Bargains. Delaware is one of five states with no sales tax. The state has a low 8.7% flat income tax on corporations, and if a business doesn't conduct its operations in ...
Starting in 2016, the state imposed a 25 percent tax on those sales. The state sales tax will be 17 percent once retailers licensed by the liquor commission open, likely later this year. Pennsylvania.
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Since 1 January 2019, Arkansas' state sales tax on unprepared food (groceries) was reduced to 0.125% (penny per $8) from 1.5%. Sales taxes on groceries had previously been reduced to 1.5% from 2% on July 1, 2011, to 2% from 3% on July 1, 2009, and to 3% from 6% on July 1, 2007. Local sales taxes on groceries remained unchanged.
Aug. 18—COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is spearheading legal action against a Columbus used-car dealership, Uncle B Auto, and its owner, Bethrand Ekeanyanwu, following allegations ...