On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:16:59 -0500, someone wrote:

Check with the NM comptroller's office and see if commissions are
taxable, and see he ever turned in the sales tax (the 2 are not
necessarily related.)

And while you might be able to find out the first, you are deluding
yourself to think you will (or can) be told the second.

We own several business and file sales tax returns in 2 states.
here's (basically) what the forms say: What are your total taxable
sales this month?

The business does not report every transaction individually. The
Comptroller would have no idea if the broker paid tax on that
particular transaction, assuming he is paying SOME tax. Now, you
could "turn him in" and ask that he be audited saying you don't think
he is turning in his tax - but why do you think this of him more than
any other person or entity? Just because you were not familiar with
the tax, doesn't mean he is any more likely than anyone else not to
turn it in.

Now sometimes people do indeed not turn in their tax. And sometimes
people do get audited. But the consumer would still have to pay the
tax.

-v.