--As of November 8, 2006 7:13:17 PM -0700, Dave Warren is alleged to have
said:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Gary V"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umm, that's not how it works here. Where I come from, any purchases made
out of state on the Internet require that we internally calculate the
sales tax and pay it to the state. At some point, in most states, every
business is likely to get tax audited for these purchases. Laws are
changing however. At some point in the future the state that sells the
item will be required to calulate, collect and send the sales tax the
the state where it was purchased.
There are different types of tax -- sales tax is entirely in the eyes of
the payee, the payer has no obligation to ensure that the payee pays
taxes. Imagine if the gov't came after you for shopping at Walmart
because Walmart didn't pay enough sales tax to the gov't.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
...Except that, in the US, for out of state purchases where you didn't pay
sales tax in the other state because you weren't there (mail-order and
Internet sales, in other words), you are supposed to report how much you
spent and pay local sales tax on it.
Yeah, it's stupid. But technically, that's the way it's supposed to work
at the moment.
Daniel T. Staal
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