[SGVLUG] Hacker Spaces and Manufacturing of smokes

[matti]

HI,

Curious, w re to Hacker Spaces and Manufacturing ...

So, if I sell you the raw materials and provide free access to a machine
which allows you to manufacture a finished product... AM I now a
manufacturer of that product?? (i.e. I would need to be licensed as
a factory of that product, regardless of the volume of production. )

NYC sues roll-your-own cigarette shops over taxes
http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-sues-roll-own-cigarette-shops-over-taxes-073231566.html

..
New Hampshire's Supreme Court ruled in July that a roll-your-own tobacco shop there was effectively a cigarette manufacturer, and thereby had to pay into the national fund that reimburses Medicare for smoking-related illnesses. The New Hampshire attorney general said those payments amount to about $5.33 per carton. The Massachusetts attorney general has also classified retailers who use roll-your-own machines as manufacturers.




Curious, What do you think?

thanks
matti