Re: New York Sales Tax
Originally Posted by
bobdog
Yes I agree with Chez. The tax collected is the sales tax at the point of sale (your county)
Having to collect tax from the buyer's county is unreasonable, and could never be enforced.
Roughly twenty years ago, I had a sales tax permit in California. Since I usually generated less than $50 of tax per year I was downgraded from monthly to quarterly filing and then to yearly filing. And on the tax return form, for all intrastate sales you were required to apportion to each county the amount of each sale made to a buyer for whom the product was delivered or shipped to another point within the state. If you deliver at your store (i.e. the customer walks out with the item) then you collect tax for your local county. If you ship elsewhere in California outside your county, you're required to collect the collect tax for that region and apportion sales to that county (because some counties have higher tax rates than others, e.g. Los Angeles doesn't have a Contra Costa County Transit District tax.)
So it's not unreasonable, and the Franchise Tax Board could and did expect you to collect tax for the buyer's county, and that was decades ago before computers were commonly available.
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