Sales Tax? Bowf??

[dragonflygrrl]

please tell me you immediately utilized a Smith and Wesson Stupidity Eliminator

Can you send me one of those? I'm fresh out.

I know that there was logic of a sort going on there, and I understand the law about interstate commerce, but buying a phone in Kansas to use in Kansas just doesn't quite make it somehow. She was so crushed when I explained that if she wanted to avoid paying sales tax I would be more than happy to ship the phone to her permenant (read: parent's) residence at her expense. Since she was buying a phone retail on the quiet to replace one she had drowned in beer, she backed down quick.

[luckythegiraffe]

The other day I had an aspiring entrepeneur tell me that because she technically lives in another state (she's a college student with a permanent residence elsewhere), and you can't charge sales tax on interstate commerce, I then can't charge her sales tax. The young are our future.

Sometimes it's true. I live in Montana, which has no sales tax. If I visit, say, North Dakota, for the purpose of making a specific purchase over $50 which will be used exclusively in Montana, and not as a tourist, I am exempt from the sales tax. The ND tax people even have a nifty pdf form I can print out on their website. Of course, this college student didn't meet the exclusive use in home state part of the deal. I have only mostly heard of people using it on very large purchases, like a car. On the other hand, my cousin, who now lives in ID, bought a car in Montana, because that's where she was from and her family friend worked out a deal for her, but she had to pay Idaho sales tax on it when she registered it there.

[scruff]

http://www.direct.gov.uk/MoneyTaxAnd...895&chk=8gHIJf

"In the UK there are three rates.

Standard rate
You pay VAT on most goods and services in the UK at the standard rate – currently 17.5 per cent.

Reduced rate
In some cases, for example children’s car seats and domestic fuel or power - you pay a reduced rate of five per cent.

Zero rate
There are some goods on which you don’t pay any VAT, like:

food
books, newspapers and magazines
children’s clothes
special exempt items – for example equipment for disabled people "

So over here its between zero and 17.5%

[Banrion]

MA 5%, CT 6%, NH 0%. Guess where I shop!

[symposes]

kentucky is stil 6%

[Jester]

:: Those people from DE should never visit Utah, then. 8% sales tax. Highest I've seen yet (though I'm sure there's somewhere with it higher).

Don't quote me on this, but I believe the State of Washington is something like 10-12% sales tax. They have no state income tax there, so for residents it balances out, but for visitors, they get shafted. I believe that is the way it is in a couple other states as well, but both Florida (where I live) and Arizona (where I'm from) are the standard, about 7% or so.

[Lehk]

The other day I had an aspiring entrepeneur tell me that because she technically lives in another state (she's a college student with a permanent residence elsewhere), and you can't charge sales tax on interstate commerce, I then can't charge her sales tax. The young are our future.

please tell me you immediately utilized a Smith and Wesson Stupidity Eliminator

[Pagan]

:: Those people from DE should never visit Utah, then. 8% sales tax. Highest I've seen yet (though I'm sure there's somewhere with it higher).

Last time I checked, Texas - 9%. I lived in El Paso (unfortunately) for exactly one year, which is now referred to as "my year of insanity".

New Mexico is still at, I think, 5% gross receipts, then you add in all the local, but it's still under 7%!

[pbmods]

:: Those people from DE should never visit Utah, then. 8% sales tax. Highest I've seen yet (though I'm sure there's somewhere with it higher).

Chicago: 9%. 11% on soda and water.

[Kogarashi]

:: Those people from DE should never visit Utah, then. 8% sales tax. Highest I've seen yet (though I'm sure there's somewhere with it higher).

[dragonflygrrl]

*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Sales tax is calculated on where the sale occurrs, not where anyone involved in it lives.... LEARN THIS FACT PEOPLE! PLEASE!!!

Boy, I needed that...

The other day I had an aspiring entrepeneur tell me that because she technically lives in another state (she's a college student with a permanent residence elsewhere), and you can't charge sales tax on interstate commerce, I then can't charge her sales tax. The young are our future.

[Argabarga]

"We don't have tax in Delaware, we live in Delaware so the tax doesn't apply to us.

*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Sales tax is calculated on where the sale occurrs, not where anyone involved in it lives.... LEARN THIS FACT PEOPLE! PLEASE!!!

Boy, I needed that...

[Becks]

. If you are this upset about the sales tax, shop in Delaware.

Well, Crow, that would involve logic, you know.

[Crow The Robot]

I live in South Jersey and people come over from DE and whine about our sales tax. "We don't have tax in Delaware, we live in Delaware so the tax doesn't apply to us. Whya re you carging us Sales Tax, There's no sales tax in Delaware. we're from Delaware" Argh. If you are this upset about the sales tax, shop in Delaware. <prays for CSers in DE>

[booger]

I have an opposite but similar problem. Where I'm from, they are testing a no tax of food products policy for 2 years. We just realized that even vitamin supplements were covered under the no tax thing. So we get customers getting mad because they are not getting their tax back when they return vitamins. They don't seem to understand that we didn't charge them tax in the first place. Sometimes we even have to get out a calculator and add it all up for them. *headdesK*