Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit, Exactly what I had said. Not sure what your point is. - -----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: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:38 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Was Found a pre-owned MP already Now Tax stuff 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html