More on Bureaucratic Hell Mono County
I have written a number of times about bureaucratic hellhole and most bureaucratic county Mono County, California.
Today, they confirmed by mail that my 11 campgrounds, all within 3 miles of each other and managed under a single contract as a single complex with the US Forest Service, now need to be registered separately with 11 tax ID's and 11 separate sales tax reports. I must fill in the same detailed application 11 times, and each application has 3 pages plus 3 carbons for a total of 66 pages of information. So, in order to collect exactly the same amount of tax that I have been collecting on exactly the same campgrounds for the last several years, Mono County needs 66 pages of paperwork, and apparently needs these same 66 pages filled out again each year. Also, instead of filing a single consolidated sales tax report each quarter, I now must file 11 separate reports for a total of 44 a year.
Can you imagine the insanity if the whole state adopted this approach? That McDonalds in California or Unocal would have to file thousands of reports a month instead of one? This is what happens when you let bureaucrats run amok.