On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:58:08 -0800 Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2022-02-28 06:34, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > But if not a remote sale, if person living in state A buys > > something at a seller in state B (and state B has sales tax) > > collected based on that. Now the buyer might still owe sales tax to > > state A when bringing the whatever home. > > The tax the buyer pays to their home state after "importing" goods for > personal use is called use tax in every state I've lived in. > > You didn't mention the case where buyer and seller are in different > taxing jurisdictions within the same state. I don't know how other > states do it, but when you live in county C in California, go to a > dealer in county D in California, and buy a car, the dealer is > required to charge sales tax at county C's rate, not county D's. > Probably the same is true for boats. For smaller items, you pay at > the rate of the seller's county, and there's no credit if you take > the goods back to your home in a lower-tax county. > > > When they pay that on their state return, they can claim > > credit for the sales tax (if any) already paid for that thing to > > state B. > > Maybe. Some states don't allow it, or allow it only up to the home > state's tax rate. It's incredibly complex. And Australians have all been led to believe that we have the most complex tax system on the planet. Liz _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
