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mamallama said:
donmarse said:
mamallama said:
bosjohn21 said:
I have received an email from B and H saying that as of April first tney will be required by federal law to charge the correct sales tax according to the state in which you live, sigh no more free lunch
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About time. There was never a free lunch. You should have been declaring and paying the state sales on internet purchases all along if your state has a sales (or use) tax. The bookkeeping has finally been updated to make the internet merchants charge it at the time of purchase.
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My state requires that if you buy anything, other than food, in another state you are supposed to pay the sales tax when you buy it and then report it and pay sales tax again in my state.
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For big ticket items like an automobile you may be able to get the sales (use) tax paid in the state of purchase if you can show you bought it to use in another state.

Say if you moved to California to take a new job with a car. You will have to pay use tax to California unless you purchased the car before you took the new job. If you have to pay the use tax to California you can apply and get the sales tax refunded from the state where you purchased the car.
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For California, I believe automobile taxation depends on when you purchased the car and when you moved. It's not a black/white issue.
 
donmarse said:
mamallama said:
bosjohn21 said:
I have received an email from B and H saying that as of April first tney will be required by federal law to charge the correct sales tax according to the state in which you live, sigh no more free lunch
Click to expand...
About time. There was never a free lunch. You should have been declaring and paying the state sales on internet purchases all along if your state has a sales (or use) tax. The bookkeeping has finally been updated to make the internet merchants charge it at the time of purchase.
Click to expand...
My state requires that if you buy anything, other than food, in another state you are supposed to pay the sales tax when you buy it and then report it and pay sales tax again in my state.
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But do "Y-O-U" do it ???
 
JPAlbert said:
I realize this thread was started about B&H, but I just bought something on ebay this evening, and find that ebay is now adding sales tax to whatever you buy there as well (at least in my state, more are going to be added).

It's definitely going to change my buying habits there!
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This Supreme Court decision will affect every business that does a substantial amount of interstate business – not just B&H.

Note that Amazon.com collects sales/use tax, but that many Amazon Marketplace sellers do not. I don't know if there is something about the structure of eBay that makes it legally required to collect tax, where Amazon Marketplace does not. The other possibility is that they didn't want hassle and "volunteered" to collect the tax in order to be on good terms with the States. Without more information, it's hard to say.
 
HRC2016 said:
mamallama said:
donmarse said:
mamallama said:
bosjohn21 said:
I have received an email from B and H saying that as of April first tney will be required by federal law to charge the correct sales tax according to the state in which you live, sigh no more free lunch
Click to expand...
About time. There was never a free lunch. You should have been declaring and paying the state sales on internet purchases all along if your state has a sales (or use) tax. The bookkeeping has finally been updated to make the internet merchants charge it at the time of purchase.
Click to expand...
My state requires that if you buy anything, other than food, in another state you are supposed to pay the sales tax when you buy it and then report it and pay sales tax again in my state.
Click to expand...
For big ticket items like an automobile you may be able to get the sales (use) tax paid in the state of purchase if you can show you bought it to use in another state.

Say if you moved to California to take a new job with a car. You will have to pay use tax to California unless you purchased the car before you took the new job. If you have to pay the use tax to California you can apply and get the sales tax refunded from the state where you purchased the car.
Click to expand...
For California, I believe automobile taxation depends on when you purchased the car and when you moved. It's not a black/white issue.
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Yes they have rules as to when you purchased the car relative to your move and relative to accepting a job in California as I pointed out above.
 
PhotoTeach2 said:
donmarse said:
mamallama said:
bosjohn21 said:
I have received an email from B and H saying that as of April first tney will be required by federal law to charge the correct sales tax according to the state in which you live, sigh no more free lunch
Click to expand...
About time. There was never a free lunch. You should have been declaring and paying the state sales on internet purchases all along if your state has a sales (or use) tax. The bookkeeping has finally been updated to make the internet merchants charge it at the time of purchase.
Click to expand...
My state requires that if you buy anything, other than food, in another state you are supposed to pay the sales tax when you buy it and then report it and pay sales tax again in my state.
Click to expand...
But do "Y-O-U" do it ???
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Yes, I always to the best of my bookkeeping on major items. If you live in California and file State Income Tax you have to sign that you have declared unpaid out of state sales (use) tax under penalty of law. I just did signed it. Non this year because Amazon had already taken it out. In previous years I did have some to declare.
 
bosjohn21 said:
I have received an email from B and H saying that as of April first tney will be required by federal law to charge the correct sales tax according to the state in which you live, sigh no more free lunch
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You have always been required to pay sales tax (or use tax) on purchases made from online merchants. The only thing that is changing is that the merchant will now collect the tax on behalf of the state.

This will save some paperwork for those who have been following the law.

This will make it more difficult for others to ignore the law and not pay their taxes.

Whether or not sales taxes are reasonable, is a separate issue.
 
Mark B. said:
It's well overdue; it will take away some of the advantage that buying online offered and give local brick & mortar stores a slightly better chance.
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I'm not arguing the right or wrong of it, but this is one thing it will surely not do. If it gives anyone a chance against online commerce, it is large brick and mortar businesses. Local shops are still endangered beasties.
 
Mackiesback said:
StarPortraits said:
I simply will buy elsewhere. You specially feel the hit on your pocketbook on expensive items like cameras and lenses. The internet brought in competitive prices and selections. Now politicians want to take over.
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Nonsense.

First of all, the internet still has competitive prices and selections. This isn't politics, its economics.
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It really is politics, though. The impetus to push the law was a political decision and done for political gains. The main impetus was supposed to help small business and it'll not do this at all. It was pushed by large retailers to attack the advantage of Amazon and the like.
 
lilBuddha said:
Mackiesback said:
StarPortraits said:
I simply will buy elsewhere. You specially feel the hit on your pocketbook on expensive items like cameras and lenses. The internet brought in competitive prices and selections. Now politicians want to take over.
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Nonsense.

First of all, the internet still has competitive prices and selections. This isn't politics, its economics.
Click to expand...
It really is politics, though. The impetus to push the law was a political decision and done for political gains. The main impetus was supposed to help small business and it'll not do this at all. It was pushed by large retailers to attack the advantage of Amazon and the like.
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I don't see it nearly that altruistically. I think the main reason for it was to recover literally billions in lost sales tax revenue. Don't you think the government cares more about that than local mom n pops? I sure do.

Of course politicians will spin it as something like the "Small Business Fairness Act" because it sounds a helluva lot nicer than something like the "Tax Cheaters Revenue Recovery Act".
 
Mackiesback said:
lilBuddha said:
Mackiesback said:
StarPortraits said:
I simply will buy elsewhere. You specially feel the hit on your pocketbook on expensive items like cameras and lenses. The internet brought in competitive prices and selections. Now politicians want to take over.
Click to expand...
Nonsense.

First of all, the internet still has competitive prices and selections. This isn't politics, its economics.
Click to expand...
It really is politics, though. The impetus to push the law was a political decision and done for political gains. The main impetus was supposed to help small business and it'll not do this at all. It was pushed by large retailers to attack the advantage of Amazon and the like.
Click to expand...
I don't see it nearly that altruistically.
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Mackiesback said:
I think the main reason for it was to recover literally billions in lost sales tax revenue. Don't you think the government cares more about that than local mom n pops? I sure do.
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I am not sure the "lost"* revenue was the main driver. If politicians truly cared about that, the tax structure on investing would be considerably different.

*Much of the monies not collected by the lack of sales tax wouldn't have existed without the tax free market.
 
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