Originally Posted by
TheBaron
Slight thread drift here. Sorry.
Anyone domiciled in Anchorage notice something similar. Every year for the first few months they withhold Alaska unemployment tax. It seems when they hit some magic number (about $200) they stop. It's happened consistently for the past 3 years. Not a big deal but along the same line; I don't live there and only "work" there for 1 hour at the beginning of a trip and 1/2 hour at the completion of a trip...a total of 1.5 hours per month.
That would be SUT or sales and use tax in normal english. A little pot of gold for the local economy tapped from the herd of individuals who pass through by virtue of being employed by a local fixture. Not a huge tax, it is much like the practice of drinking the blood of cows in small enough quantities so that they don't notice, or at most feel just a slight sting from the arrow used to open the vein.