Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Chief USA
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NMaier said:
The Emergency Notice Instructions tell you to retail your receipt when you purchase off road red dye diesel. So you show proof that you paid the road tax.
President Bush and the IRS have indeed lifted the restrictions on burning off road red dye diesel as well. Below is a cut and paste of the Federal annoncement:
IRS Waives Diesel Fuel Penalty Due to Hurricane Katrina
IRS Waives Diesel Fuel Penalty Due to Hurricane Katrina
IR-2005-89, Sept. 2, 2005
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service, in response to shortages of clear diesel fuel caused by Hurricane Katrina, will not impose a tax penalty when dyed diesel fuel is sold for use or used on the highway.
This relief applies beginning August 25, 2005, in Florida, August 30, 2005, in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and August 31, 2005, in the rest of the United States, and will remain in effect through September 15, 2005.
This penalty relief is available to any person that sells or uses dyed fuel for highway use. In the case of the operator of the vehicle in which the dyed fuel is used, the relief is available only if the operator or the person selling the fuel pays the tax of 24. 4 cents per gallon. The IRS will not impose penalties for failure to make semimonthly deposits of this tax. IRS Publication 510, Excise Taxes for 2005, has information on the proper method for reporting and paying the tax.
Ordinarily, dyed diesel fuel is not taxed, because it is sold for uses exempt from excise tax, such as to farmers for farming purposes and to local governments for buses.
Finally, the Internal Revenue Service will not impose the recently enacted tax penalty on a failure to meet the requirements of EPA highway diesel fuel sulfur content regulations if EPA has waived those requirements.
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I still don't see why this thread is such an issue. There isn't a savings, just permission to contaminate your fuel system with the red dye. It just ins't worth it. I myself, don't want the local guys dipping my tank, finding red, then give them a reason to keep checking me for the next year! I already tick them off with my Oregon issued DMV SEATBELT EXEMPTION that I have due to a shoulder problem. They really get ticked off when they pull me over thing that they are giving a seatbelt ticket and I fork over my card. :-laf . I would wear it under my arm but that is a ticket also, not to mention it will mess you up even more if you get smacked on the road. I just figure that the air bag will most likely break my neck if the crash is that bad anyway. (Please don't let this start a arguement for the pro's and con's of seatbelt use) :-{} My choice, my body, my life. 
Kinda like the helmet law for bikes. If you want to wear one, great, but if you don't, don't shove a $100 ticket at me. I lived through the years back in the 50's of riding in the back of a pickup, standing up in the back seat and living to this day without death. If your time is up, it's up. . Period
