Recharger The Dog » illegal knockoffs http://www.rechargerthedog.com Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:36:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why New Yorkers Suck At Math. http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2006/12/04/why-new-yorkers-suck-at-math/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2006/12/04/why-new-yorkers-suck-at-math/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:50:44 +0000 Recharger http://rechargerthedog.com/?p=205 gucci_vuitton_bag.jpgAT LAST, RECHARGER GETS WHY REAL ESTATE TAXES ON HIS DOGHOUSE DOUBLED LAST YEAR FROM $15 TO AN EXCRUCIATING $30. Turns out New York officials claim $1 billion-per-year tax losses from shady characters who hawk counterfeit goods--mostly on Broadway south … Continue reading →]]> gucci_vuitton_bag.jpgAT LAST, RECHARGER GETS WHY REAL ESTATE TAXES ON HIS DOGHOUSE DOUBLED LAST YEAR FROM $15 TO AN EXCRUCIATING $30. Turns out New York officials claim $1 billion-per-year tax losses from shady characters who hawk counterfeit goods--mostly on Broadway south of 34th Street. A little sixth-grade math, however, casts doubt on this figure. A $1 billion loss in tax revenues--$33 million daily—would mean that $11.9 billion of fake merchandise is sold annually in NYC (Only three years ago the city claimed tax losses on knock-offs were $500 million). Even the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy, a industry group trying to stop illegal knockoffs, says that for all of 2004 and 2005, the value of counterfeit goods sold within the entire United States was $4.8 million. The group estimates that daily sales of counterfeit merchandise are $23 million for the entire world.

Maybe the city confused the tax number with how many times Recharger was rejected last year on lookingforadoggymate.com?

-- Zachary Cohen

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