Chief aircraft collecting California tax now

[RobertGary1]

The best reason to order from chief instead of spruce appears to be gone. Not sure why they’re collecting tax now. 
 

-Robert 

[Parker_Woodruff]

Just now, RobertGary1 said:

The best reason to order from chief instead of spruce appears to be gone. Not sure why they’re collecting tax now. 
 

-Robert 

Supreme Court ruling that could easily be solved if the folks in Washington would legislate as the commerce clause allows them to do.

[Mark89114]

They are collecting in CA because CA ssid they had to.  There is a dollar threshold and/or a volume of orders, below that number no need.  My guess is Chief just crossed that threshold, ask how i know.  

As parker says they need to do something instead of creating this huge administrative burden on companies, particuarily small ones.  We cant deal with 50.different state rules and thousands of local tax entities.   Our government leadership is pathetic, across tge board at all levels.

[GeeBee]

The California State Franchise Tax Board makes the IRS look tame. Not people to trifle with.

 

 

[Yetti]

Just signed up for a sales tax permit for Texas for ebay sales.

[Ron McBride]

Sales tax in CA also varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

 

[Hank]

37 minutes ago, Ron McBride said:

Sales tax in CA also varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

 

Same for most states--varies beween each county, city and town depending on local options. 

The thousands of different sales taxes is why the mail order business was originally exempted from collecting sales tax. There's no practical way for a business to keep p with the constantly changing sales tax in every jurisdiction, much less which jurisdiction each individual buyer is from . . . But the Republik of Kalifornia has decides that every business in the world needs to collect and forward sales tax to them. Wonder how folks in NY, GA, OK, etc., are supposed to know when Kali sales tax goes up and down???

Edited January 13, 2020 by Hank

[RobertGary1]

“As of April 1, 2019 due to a ruling that allows any state that wishes to
participate in the collection of sales tax for good shipped into their
state. California was first to get on board. Washington has followed suit. 

Thank you for your inquiry,
Stacey “
stacey@chiefaircraft.com

[chrisk]

6 minutes ago, Hank said:

Same for most states--varies beween each county, city and town depending on local options. 

The thousands of different sales taxes is why the mail order business was originally exempted from collecting sales tax. There's no practical way for a business to keep p with the constantly changing sales tax in every jurisdiction, much less which jurisdiction each individual buyer is from . . . But the Republik of Kalifornia has decides that every business in the world needs to collect and forward sales tax to them. Wonder how folks in NY, GA, OK, etc., are supposed to know when Kali sales tax goes up and down???

Its actually an easy problem to solve. It's generally the case that states already have laws where the consumer is responsible for paying sales tax if they import an item into the state for use.    Congress simply needs to mandate a standardized reporting mechanism for interstate commerce.   The states can then bill their own residents.

[RobertGary1]

1 hour ago, chrisk said:

Its actually an easy problem to solve. It's generally the case that states already have laws where the consumer is responsible for paying sales tax if they import an item into the state for use.    Congress simply needs to mandate a standardized reporting mechanism for interstate commerce.   The states can then bill their own residents.

I don't see the states going for that. You're talking about changing from a system whereby the state sits back and merchants mail in checks to a scenario in which the state becomes the collector for millions on individuals. And you'd need processes for challenges, administrative courts, etc. The states just want checks, not all that.

 

-robert

 

[Guest]

Time for some serious tax reform down there.

Clarence

[RobertGary1]

16 minutes ago, M20Doc said:

Time for some serious tax reform down there.

Clarence

Like when you go to Vancouver and each receipt has 3 different taxes on it.

 

-Robert

[Yetti]

4 hours ago, M20Doc said:

Time for some serious tax reform down there.

Clarence

We threw tea in the harbor once, we will do it again

[Guest]

5 hours ago, RobertGary1 said:

Like when you go to Vancouver and each receipt has 3 different taxes on it.

 

-Robert

While no system is perfect, I prefer what we have here.  The federal sales tax of 5% and the various provincial taxes were merged years ago to become the Harmonized sales tax (HST).  Municipalities, cities and airport don’t get to charge sales taxes as described in this thread.

When I as a business purchase goods for resale I get an input tax credit for taxes I’ve paid to the vendor, when I resell the item I too charge HST and remit only the difference between what I paid and what I collected.  All sales taxes are remitted to the federal government, who distribute it to the provinces based on the rate in each province.
 

When I buy goods for my business but not for resale,  I get an input tax credit which is deducted from taxes collected on sales, again I remit the difference.  There is very little which is exempt from sales tax.

Clarence

[exM20K]

at the risk of going "political..."

The Wayfare decision makes life very difficult for small to to medium e-commerce vendors.  The giants like amazon can comply.  The rest of us, not so much.

Smaller operators will suffer:

• pre-register with various states
• accounting nightmare - not just state, but also local taxes
• personal liability for sales tax "owed."

No Bueno for eCommerce via not large internet sellers

 

 

-dan

 

[Shiny moose]

The backbone of the US economy are the small businesses . Lets burden them more, make it harder, fine them more, make the laws so hard to understand that you must hire people just to stay legal. Companies like Amazon, Walmart and other ultra large companies would love that you close your doors