{"id":617,"date":"2012-08-08T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:53:48","slug":"pedicab-pirates-in-a-taxing-situation-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/news\/pedicab-pirates-in-a-taxing-situation-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedicab pirate\u2019s in a taxing situation &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Savas Avci, a licensed pedicab driver known for overcharging tourists, is under scrutiny for illegally adding sales tax to his exorbitant fares, despite pedicab rides being exempt from state sales tax. He charged a Texas family $36.54 in tax on a $406 ride and a Maryland family $28.52 on a $316 ride. The Department of Consumer Affairs plans to refer his case to the Department of Taxation to determine if he&#8217;s remitting these taxes to the state. Additionally, Avci is not registered with the state as a vendor authorized to collect taxes, raising further legal concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2012\/08\/08\/pedicab-pirates-in-a-taxing-situation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2012\/08\/08\/pedicab-pirates-in-a-taxing-situation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savas Avci, a licensed pedicab driver known for overcharging tourists, is under scrutiny for illegally adding sales tax to his exorbitant fares, despite pedicab rides being exempt from state sales tax. He charged a Texas family $36.54 in tax on a $406 ride and a Maryland family $28.52 on a $316 ride. The Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}