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re: Has anyone had any issue with their state 'Use' tax?
Posted on 2/4/14 at 9:23 am to RickAstley
Posted on 2/4/14 at 9:23 am to RickAstley
Bumping an old thread rather than making a new one since I am once again curious about the Use tax line.
When you make a purchase online and they do not charge sales tax, do they send a record to the state of the sale? Last year I calculated what I owed and I filled it in. I plan to go through the process once more, though its a tempting field to not fulfill the full sales tax value of what I owe from online shopping.
When you make a purchase online and they do not charge sales tax, do they send a record to the state of the sale? Last year I calculated what I owed and I filled it in. I plan to go through the process once more, though its a tempting field to not fulfill the full sales tax value of what I owe from online shopping.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 12:51 pm to RickAstley
In general there is no record sent to the state. The online retailers claim that it would be too hard/expensive to track all of the taxing jurisdictions that they ship to. I do remember hearing about the state of Louisiana getting a hold of Thompson's Cigar Co's mailing list. They then looked at the returns filled for the customers to see if any use tax was paid. If none was paid, that triggered an audit. I don't think the state could prove how much use tax was due. I think there was another mail order company that they also did this with, but don't remember the name. This was at least 6 years ago.
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