ROCKLAND, Maine — A 58-year-old Camden man was indicted by the Knox County grand jury that completed its work Wednesday on charges connected with the theft of sales tax money owed the state for more than four years.
David Dickey was indicted on charges of theft by misapplication of sales tax and failure to collect, account for, or pay sales tax. According to the indictment, he committed the offenses from July 2006 through November 2010 at the Riverhouse Ice Cream Stand.
The ice cream stand is adjacent to Dickey’s Riverhouse Hotel in downtown Camden.
The amount of money involved exceeded $10,000, according to the indictment.
LePage may have been right about this gestapo thing
Knox County grand jury: not federal. Sales tax: not federal either.
Making Lepage the head of said gestapo – yup sounds about right.
The other day you were insensed about Lepage making a Gestapo joke, now you do it? What a HYPOCRITE!
I was ?
Really?
Go find the post sweet pea.
Frankly I expect Lepage to have that sort of stuff fall out of his face.
Holy Smolly!!!Thats alot of friggin Ice cream Id say..I can just imagine what wasses hotdog stand has to pay-in on a yearly basis..
You’ve got me curious now, so I think I’ll do the math. What’s a dish of ice cream go for these days, $4.00 or so? Kiddie sizes lower, fancy sundaes higher, I figure it all averages out around there. There’s a 7% sales tax on prepared food, that’s 28 cents per serving. They say the amount misappropriated “exceeds $10,000”. Let’s say, just to make the math tidier, that it’s $10,024, that’s 35,800 $4 ice creams. The article also says it’s alleged to have gone on between July 2006 and November 2010. That’s a little odd, since the Riverhouse’s website says the stand is open from late May to October 1, but whatever. Maybe there’s a month lag in the bookkeeping.
Anyway. That’s three months in 2006 and the full seasons in ’07, ’08, ’09, and ’10 – say 19 months of operation, or about 570 days. They’d have had to move an average of about 61 $4 ice creams a night to rack up 10 grand in unpaid sales tax in that time. I’m not in the ice cream business except as a consumer, and I’ve never been to the Riverhouse, but based on a lifetime’s experience in line at places like Houlton Farms and the Gifford’s stand in Bangor, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that’s not unreasonable.
Stop!…… Halt!………Don’t move a muscle. Sir, Put down the ice-cream cone, put your hands up, and back away.
The ones that are really ripping us off carry briefcases and blackberries (lawyers, stock brokers, politicians). I never really thought about that ice cream tax.
Note to all summer workers at ice cream stands: Hide your tip jar or they’ll come after that too!
Do you not know how sales tax works? This indictment has nothing to do with sinister government agents taking away summer workers’ tip jars or shaking down customers at the window. What it means is that this guy was (allegedly – he’s only been indicted, after all) collecting it from customers by including it in the sale price, as is customary, and then keeping it for himself instead of paying it to the state. So he was ripping off his customers and the government.
Just ignoring the sales tax law altogether – not collecting it from customers and not paying the state anything – might possibly fly as some kind of quixotic act of antigovernment defiance. Stickin’ it to the Man and all that. Taking it from customers as normal and then pocketing it, on the other hand, is just stealing.
We need to cut taxes – especially for the rich. These people are too important to pay taxes. They are job creators- DD’s daughter and neice really need jobs! We have to support the children of the rich. It is vital to our economy!