According to the tax code, purchasers are already required to pay either state sales or use tax for any type of sale.
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Some states now require online sellers to collect sales or use tax.
For example, if you use your aircraft too much in a given state during the first six months, the state may come after you for sales or use tax.
If you make frequent taxable purchases from out-of-state businesses that do not collect California sales or use tax, you should register with us using the eReg system to obtain a Consumer Use Tax Account.
Though California residents, like most of us, have technically been required to pay a sales (or use) tax on their online purchase all along, there was never a mechanism in place for collecting this at the time of purchase.
Not surprisingly, few buyers do so, even though many states, including California, include a line on their state income tax forms for use or sales tax owed.
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If you have any questions or concerns regarding this letter or any other sales and use tax matter, please visit our website at www.boe.ca.gov or call our Taxpayer Information Section at 800-400-7115 (TTY:711).
In January, Rob Woodall (R-GA) introduced a bill in Congress to repeal income, employment and estate and gift taxes and instead impose a 23 percent sales tax on the use or consumption of all goods, properties and services.
All it says it that a state may at its option require remote sellers to collect sales taxes as long as the state first takes one of two steps: It must either adopt on its own some basic rules to simplify tax collection or sign on to an interstate pact known as the Simplified Sales and Use Tax Agreement an understanding already adopted by 24 jurisdictions.
Also in September, Pennsylvania will start requiring sales tax collection from online retailers who use a warehouse or other location in Pennsylvania including third-party merchants who use eBay (GSI Commerce) or Amazon warehouses for order fulfillment.
Those taxes, which include sales and use tax and real estate tax, are generally payable by the organization unless exempt either by application or by agreement.
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