Sales Tax? Bowf??

[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.

[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).

[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.

[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%!

[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

[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.

[symposes]

kentucky is stil 6%

[Banrion]

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

[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%

[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.

[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.