[GNC] Automatic sales tax

[David Carlson]

At least you have the best opera house on the planet.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 5:28 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:58:08 -0800
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at 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
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David Carlson