Doesn’t matter. What did I just say?
READ 49 USC 24301 (l). [That’s a lowercase letter “L”]
Subsection (k) applies to other forms of business tax on acquisition of real property.
Federal law, appropriately Constitutionally applied to the states as Amtrak operates in interstate commerce.
There are army’s of tax attorneys will argue every letter and number of your citations.
They won’t get far. That’s unambiguous, enacted Federal law, and its provisions regarding local and state taxation are clear in the language.
If all tax laws were so free of ambiguity, I think there would be much less need for all those tax lawyers and tax accountants as specializations.
JPS1 certainly would have a more informed opinion than I.
The large company that I worked for in Dallas had operations in Australia, Canada, Texas, and the UK.
The U.S. has one of the most complex tax code(s) of any of the OECD countries. It is a workfare program for tax accountants, tax lawyers, and tax software peddlers.
When I worked in Australia, my U.S. tax return, which was prepared by a big four accounting firm, ran 28 pages. My Australian tax return was two pages.
We had 135 people in our headquarters tax department. Many of them were CPAs and tax lawyers. Just staying abreast of the sales and use taxes in Texas required the full-time efforts of approximately 10 people.
Texas imposes a sales and use tax of 6.25% on retail sales, leases, and rentals of most goods. But this is only the beginning. Local taxing jurisdictions (cities, counties, special purpose districts, and transit authorities) can up the local sales and use tax by 2%. Just figuring out what is taxed, when, and at what rate is mind boggling.
Simple tax systems are more efficient and effective. But most attempts to simplify the tax code(s) in the U.S. have fallen on deaf ears and/or push backs from lobbyists that represent people with a vested interest in complexity.
“We gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs gentlemen.” Governor Le Petomane
Blazing Saddles
Oh-OH Siemens cars have lead in some of the car’s potable water.Wonder if it can be the water source ?
Lead tainted water adds more delays for CA train project | The Sacramento Bee (sacbee.com)
Not a huge problem to fix. My guess is someone used the wrong solder to join the pipes together. Regardless they have two choices, replace the plumbing once they find the issue (most of it should be under the car and the restrooms are all at one end which should make it easier to fix) or install a water filtration system in each restroom prior to outletting the water to public.
While lead solder may be grandfathered on old plumbing, I got to believe it would be out of code on new installation.