Originally Posted by sloride

Your post starts out with back in the day. I wouldn't be surprised if the IRS, and state agencies didn't want to start taxing the use or depreciation as income to the sales person. Some money grabbin pol may have determined that a brand new car that sells for say 20K is a 17K car as a demo unit, therefore taxing bodies just lost out on the sales tax. I had a fishing boat years back that I would occasionally charter out and my accountant said do it on a cash basis only or the IRS may come after you for any time that I used It personally at the same rate as I had chartered it for.