Dear Car Wash Guy,
You are buying groceries. That's great. Oh, look, you have a sales tax license. Wonderful. You can collect sales tax at your car wash. Do you know what you can't do with it? You can't use it as a tax exemption certificate so you don't have to pay sales tax on the sodas you buy at the Grocery Store. You run a car wash. Not a school, not church, not a daycare, not a retirement community, not any number of businesses which would have reason to be exempt from paying taxes, but a frikkin car wash.
Here is what I'll do. I'll save your order and send you up to customer service, and then I'll watch a stream of higher and higher managers trying vainly to explain that you have to pay tax, and saying that Other Cashier let you do it is not going to cut it. That will be "fun".
Sincerely,
Your Cashier
You are buying groceries. That's great. Oh, look, you have a sales tax license. Wonderful. You can collect sales tax at your car wash. Do you know what you can't do with it? You can't use it as a tax exemption certificate so you don't have to pay sales tax on the sodas you buy at the Grocery Store. You run a car wash. Not a school, not church, not a daycare, not a retirement community, not any number of businesses which would have reason to be exempt from paying taxes, but a frikkin car wash.
Here is what I'll do. I'll save your order and send you up to customer service, and then I'll watch a stream of higher and higher managers trying vainly to explain that you have to pay tax, and saying that Other Cashier let you do it is not going to cut it. That will be "fun".
Sincerely,
Your Cashier
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