This report would indicate otherwise in re: narcotics tax stamps. [1] > Almost no dealers actually [anonymously purchase narcotics tax stamps], nor does [then-

This report would indicate otherwise in re: narcotics tax stamps. [1] > Almost no dealers actually [anonymously purchase narcotics tax stamps], nor does [then-NYS governor] Mr. Spitzer expect them to. The vast majority of revenues from the tax are collected after law enforcement officials seize the drugs, said Kimberly Y. Brooks, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Revenue. > “It’s really about cutting the drug dealers off at the knees,” said Ms. Smith of the tax administrators group. “It kind of goes back to the Al Capone model.” Proving tax avoidance is much easier than proving a drug crime, she said, so the tax laws help the authorities keep seized drug money even when a suspect accused of dealing drugs goes free. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html