1. Several Tumblrs linked posts denouncing New York’s bagel tax brackets. As a semi-pro bagelmonger, it’s been on my radar for quite some time. Here’s a pic I snapped while paying at a midtown Hot & Crusty yesteryear. It details the minutiae of a bakery tax scheme amounting to: preparation or on-premises consumption trigger tax on otherwise exempted food. It seems a contrivance until you reflect on New York City’s sales tax categories. Bagel shops, bakeries and such walk the line between restaurant/caterer (taxable food) and grocer (mostly not). 

    Several Tumblrs linked posts denouncing New York’s bagel tax brackets. As a semi-pro bagelmonger, it’s been on my radar for quite some time. Here’s a pic I snapped while paying at a midtown Hot & Crusty yesteryear.

    It details the minutiae of a bakery tax scheme amounting to: preparation or on-premises consumption trigger tax on otherwise exempted food. It seems a contrivance until you reflect on New York City’s sales tax categories. Bagel shops, bakeries and such walk the line between restaurant/caterer (taxable food) and grocer (mostly not). 

    1 year ago  /  7 notes

    1. lacey said: too much thinking. just give me a bagel.
    2. boutofcontext posted this