| Title: | SAILING |
| Notice: | Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference |
| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2299 |
| Total number of notes: | 20724 |
I just receive some items I ordered from Boat/U.S in Maryland.
On the packing slip I saw that they-Boat U.S-added sales taxes
of 5%.Now,I am pretty sure this is the first time I've seen sales
taxes witheld by them.Am I wrong and I didn't notice before that
sales taxes were always there,or Duke's arm reached the other states
and asked them to hold sales tax. for Mass.residents?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1268.1 | Reciprocal agreement among taxers | NETMAN::CARTER | Fri Jun 30 1989 15:35 | 11 | |
It has been that way since Boats r Us opened their store in Waltham.
When a customer buys via mail order from an out of state company,
if the mail order company has a normal place of business in
Massachusetts you will pay Mass. tax. The same applies in virtually
all states which impose a sales tax.
Of course states which don't have sales tax (N.H. comes to mind)
don't have reciprocal agreements.
djc
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| 1268.2 | long arm of the law | HYDRA::SCHUMANN | BeeVAX | Wed Jul 05 1989 10:24 | 16 |
State sales tax laws are generally written to cover ALL merchandise that is sold to end users within the state, regardless of whether the stuff is sold within the state, or through mail-order or whatever. Of course, an out-of-state mail-order company has no reason to collect Mass sales tax, since they don't conduct any of their business within Massachusetts jurisdiction. There's no way for Mass to force them to pay the sales tax. The state's position is that YOU should pay the sales tax directly to the state for this merchandise. They have forms for this purpose. If you are buying a major item that the state will find out about, e.g. a boat or a car, they will come after you for the sales tax. Now that Boat US has a MA store, they can no longer escape the state's tax bite. --RS | |||||