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Post by zoesam on Apr 6, 2015 17:03:58 GMT
In the years I've been charging sales tax, I've never once had one not charged. But in March, I had one in state that was not charged.
It seemed to be a 1-time occurrence, as my April in state customer was charged.
Anyone ever run into this? A buyer who should have been charged sales tax was not?
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Post by bettyblackbent on Apr 25, 2015 6:38:47 GMT
Once. because their eBay registered address was out of state while their Ship To address was in state.
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Post by Pantlandia on Apr 25, 2015 6:50:48 GMT
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Post by zoesam on Apr 25, 2015 8:10:01 GMT
Once. because their eBay registered address was out of state while their Ship To address was in state. Hmmm, maybe that was it. Thanks, I never thought of that.
Not gonna worry about it unless it happens again.
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Post by denise15601 on May 1, 2015 23:36:04 GMT
I have had a lot of problems with eBay charging sales tax on the shipping even though I specifically checked that the shipping amount was not to be taxed.
So I had to refund the amount to the buyer and adjust my records for reporting to the IRS.
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Post by zoesam on May 2, 2015 0:41:19 GMT
I have had a lot of problems with eBay charging sales tax on the shipping even though I specifically checked that the shipping amount was not to be taxed. So I had to refund the amount to the buyer and adjust my records for reporting to the IRS. Interesting. I do have to charge on the S&H & I haven't experienced any problems with it, so I have the box checked for yes. I can't say that I've ever done the actual calculation to be sure Ebay is doing it right.
I'm not following the last line, IRS doesn't care abt sales tax. Honestly, I don't worry about it in a lot of detail, as I wind up paying the state approx. $12 each year. My state is one of the most complex in the nation. I couldn't possibly get it exactly right w/o spending hours on it & probably 45 minutes on each tx, so I do the best I can & don't worry abt the pennies.
eta; oops, accidentally hit enter. The year I got set up to do it, the guy at the sales tax offc who did the report, did it completely wrong. I think he was annoyed that I even bothered for $10, but there wasn't much he could say since "I am now legal". It was kinda like, 'I know you're s'posed to be doing this, but why are you bothering me for this piddly thing' LOL.
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Post by denise15601 on May 2, 2015 3:29:44 GMT
OOPS, the PA sales tax is on the State tax site....sorry about that.
I do the telefile every 6 months and it is usually under $10. PA doesn't tax clothing, so any taxable item that I sell to a PA person, I collect the 6% and pay that to the state.
Robot asks for my net, gross and amount of tax that I collected. Very easy.
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Post by val2525 on May 2, 2015 4:31:38 GMT
CO sales tax is complicated in that it's not all reported to a central location. AZ is the same way, not all counties/cities/districts are on board yet for a central reporting process. That would help a LOT if CO implemented it. We have centralized reporting here, and so does FL. In FL, sales tax is by whre the item is shipped, not where the seller is. Talk about a PITA…. but reporting all the info in one return makes it a lot easier.
I was very surprised to find out that NM is ahead of the game on this, over CO and AZ.
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Post by zoesam on May 2, 2015 6:23:17 GMT
CO sales tax is complicated in that it's not all reported to a central location. AZ is the same way, not all counties/cities/districts are on board yet for a central reporting process. That would help a LOT if CO implemented it. We have centralized reporting here, and so does FL. In FL, sales tax is by whre the item is shipped, not where the seller is. Talk about a PITA…. but reporting all the info in one return makes it a lot easier. I was very surprised to find out that NM is ahead of the game on this, over CO and AZ.
I'm not even referring to that, though that's true, but it doesn't really come up in Ebay sales for the individual b/c you wouldn't have a home rule city in common with a buyer, unless it was your own city, so I would never owe tax to a different home rule city. I'm talking about having to charge tax on every district the buyer & seller have in common. While making it very difficult to know what districts they have in common, particularly BEFORE the sale. There are thousands of districts & special taxes (rtd, ltd, I don't even know them all). I have no idea if I have some weird taxing district in common with someone in a suburb 90 miles away, but I may in the case of improvement districts.
Thankfully we don't deliver our own product. I remember in my tax class a woman who was going to do home deliveries, hers was even more of a nightmare. Plus the whole, you actually have to charge it, you can't just pay it. For my $12/year, it's kinda ludicrous, but the tax instructor says "talk to your legislature". Not even gonna talk about nexus. Luckily, again, doesn't come up in Ebay sales for the typical individual seller, though it may for the business seller. Like I guess the home rule city could come up with a business seller (say an auto parts store) that has a nexus in a home rule city or multiple home rule cities.
It all makes my head hurt. A lot.
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Post by val2525 on May 2, 2015 16:44:31 GMT
Do talk to your legislature. Colorado politicians want jobs outside of the very unstable, unpredictible oil industry? Change the tax code. You don't even have to cut the taxes, just simplify them.
It worked here. Business groups managed to get some very nice tax changes a couple of years ago. Not cuts, the rates didn't go down, but simplifying the code actually saved businesses some money.
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No sales tax here. 
