RE: [Leica] Was Found a pre-owned MP already Now Tax stuff

["Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>]

Bill--

It's really simple. We are located in Colorado, and that's the only place we
have a business presence. If you buy from me and you have the item shipped
to a Colorado address, I will collect Colorado sales tax. If you have the
item shipped to some other place, I will not charge you tax. Since we have
no business presence anywhere but in Colorado, and do not plan to have one
anywhere else, the only sales tax that I have to worry about collecting is
Colorado's.

If PA has laws that require you to pay a tax on anything you buy from
anyone, that's your biz in PA, not mine in CO!

Kit
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of WOC
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:03 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Was Found a pre-owned MP already Now Tax stuff


Kit,
  I should pay PA 6% of anything I buy from you. Pretty cut and dried.
  Brick and mortar would still apply were your PCs sitting in your basement
here.  You don't have to have a walk in store front here, just a business
presence.  So were I to open up a branch of Acmefoto here, any sales in PA
would require the PA tax be collected, no matter if it were made from your
PC or mine (or Apple for that matter....) The laws were built long before
the internet was a glint in Al Gore's eye.
Bill

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Kit
McChesney | acmefoto
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 11:40 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Was Found a pre-owned MP already Now Tax stuff


Bill--

Which state were you going to send the tax to, in the hypothetical scenario
that shows you buying something from Acmefoto? To Pennsylvania, or to
Colorado?

In Colorado, it isn't necessary for the establishment to have a
brick-and-mortar, that is, a walk-in store where clients do biz over the
counter. We operate exclusively online and by telephone, and since we do
business in Colorado, our Colorado clients must pay the state sales tax at
2.9%. (Or rather, we must pay it, so we have to charge it to our clients as
well).

Kit

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of WOC
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:18 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Was Found a pre-owned MP already Now Tax stuff


Law here in PA is simple.  If the vendor has a brick and mortar operation in
the state the consumer pays tax.  I.e., you buy something considered taxable
from COMP-USA or Sears for example over the internet or thru the catalog,
you pay sales tax on the item.  If you go to a border state like Delaware
that has no sales tax but have it delivered, like furniture, you pay the
tax.  This has been the law for decades and the internet has not changed it.
On the other hand if I buy something from Kit or Pat, they are not obligated
to charge me tax because neither Pat or Kit has a presence in PA.  However,
to follow the law, I should then calculate the tax and send it along to the
state.  Same as if I go to Delaware and buy something across the counter.
I'm sure that happens all the time.
Bill

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Kit
McChesney | acmefoto
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:56 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Found a pre-owned MP already


Well, we'll see about that. I wouldn't bank on it just yet. The internet
tax, that is. On the second point, that sounds like the mantra of publishers
and printers. To make a million dollars, start with two million.

KM

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry Ting
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:35 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Found a pre-owned MP already


Internet sales tax is coming. In truth here in U.S,
for every dollar we spend after tax (federal, state,
disability, medical insurance, social security etc etc
etc), we gotta make at least 2.

- --- Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank
> > heavens there is
> > no VAT in the United States. I'd personally desire
> great physical harm for
> > whoever attempted put such an idea into practice.
>
> Er, Adam...thank heavens for WHOM?  If the US had a
> national sales tax, and
> NOT the Federal Income Tax/IRS, I would welcome it.
> It would change the tax
> rate to near %50 to whatever...where that whatever
> would be a hell of a lot
> lower.
>
> Austin


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