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Shopping online? Sales tax is a definite maybe.(Up front: news / trends / advice)(Brief Article)
If you shop online and the seller doesn't include sales tax, does that mean you don't have to pay it? Not quite.
Most online retailers have managed to avoid asking for sales tax by leaning on a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a state cannot force companies with no major facility in that state to collect sales tax from residents. (A major facility generally means a warehouse, headquarters, or retail outlet.) Thus, retailers ask for sales tax only in some states.
But that doesn't let you off the hook. If your state or local government levies sales tax and you go online to buy a taxable item that you'll use at home, you owe a "use" tax. The fact that the e-tailor may not have collected the tax doesn't matter. States have different methods for collecting use taxes. Some let you pay online, while others require a separate tax form and still others let you report it on the individual income-tax form.
Ignoring that tax means ...
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- Magazine article from: Music Trades August 1, 2005 700+ words
...agreement to establish uniform sales tax rules. The agreement is widely...online and catalog merchants to collect sales tax. The group announced that by...them to easily collect and remit sales tax to the appropriate states. Sensing...
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- Magazine article from: India Business Insight March 20, 2002 700+ words
...that it has no plans to hand over the responsibility of sales tax collection on liquor to the commercial tax department. It added that the excise department will continue to collect sales tax on liquor. The Government also said that the Excise...
- Indiana Endeavors to Collect Sales Tax on Web Purchases.(Knight Ridder/Tribune...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Koenig, Bill September 6, 2000 700+ words
...scenes efforts to collect sales taxes. Nothing...the way to make sales tax collection from...exempt from the sales tax. Some legislatures...simplify their sales-tax regulations as...Internet retailers collect sales taxes. "I think...
- Indiana Endeavors to Collect Sales Tax on Web Purchases.
- News wire article from: Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) September 6, 2000 700+ words
...scenes efforts to collect sales taxes. Nothing...the way to make sales tax collection from...exempt from the sales tax. Some legislatures...simplify their sales-tax regulations as...Internet retailers collect sales taxes. "I think...
- 27 more NBP branches to collect sales tax, FED.
- Magazine article from: Business Recorder August 10, 2006 700+ words
...Collectorate of Sales Tax (HQ), Sales Tax House, Karachi, and Large Taxpayer Units, Karachi can also deposit sales tax and excise duty at the NBP branches...branches are already authorised to collect sales tax and excise duty in Karachi. Within...
- States continue quest for simple sales tax: watching millions in revenues slip...
- Magazine article from: State Legislatures Tubbesing, Carl Williams, Graham May 1, 2002 700+ words
...states to pass model streamlined sales tax laws. Their immediate task in...hardest issues." The streamlined sales tax movement is the response of state...an out-of-state retailer to collect sales tax on purchases shipped into that...
- Should mail-order retailers collect sales tax?(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Music Trades Gigax, R. Craig Jarvis, Kevin Davis, Larry Watral, Carl Lipman, Barry Haber, Jon McCann, Bryan Ousley, Joe September 1, 2005 700+ words
...mail order retailers should collect sales tax, obviously touched a nerve with...and con, on the merits of equal sales tax treatment. Some misguided Congressmen...direct-reponse merchants insist sales tax has no effect on whether a customer...
- Indiana Fights Losing Battle to Collect Sales Tax on Mail-Order, Online Items.
- News wire article from: Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) April 9, 2001 700+ words
...tax is merely another word for sales tax that you didn't pay, and YOU...would be the $5 in Indiana state sales tax you dodged by buying that $100...your local Kmart, which would collect sales tax and remit it to the state. Such...
- E-retailers begin to collect sales tax.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 6, 2003 700+ words
...able to do that unless we charge sales tax," she told the Post. Internet...shoppers either are not aware that sales tax can be avoided or don't see it...have stepped up their efforts to collect sales tax from online retailers. The collection...
- Major U.S. web retailers begin to collect sales tax.(Brief Article)
- News wire article from: DSN Retail Fax February 17, 2003 700+ words
...retailers generally have not collected sales tax on Web purchases unless they have...centralized Web-based IT system to collect sales tax from Web customers is in the works...exempted businesses from collecting sales tax from out-of-state customers...
