MagnunJoe
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Dear friends, if u have purchased a gun online out of state from Buds, Cheaper, Cabellas or anybody else, how is the sales tax collected from the transaction?
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This will give you an idea of your state's tax laws in cases where tax is not collected by the retailed at the time the online sale occurs.What tax? State sales tax?
I think it's like any other online sale. Sales tax applies if the store has a physical location (a "brick and mortar") in the same state as that to which the order is shipped. It's collected by the seller at the time of payment.
That's been my experience in online purchases from out of state businesses (I'm also in Florida.) If the business is located in Florida, I pay state sales tax. If it's not, there is none collected.
I have read that there may be legislation being drafted to change this, though.
Wrong. In SC one must remit a use tax to SC similar to what would have been paid just like it was bought in state.no state tax is collected from online out of state purchases
In CT, when you file your taxes, they ask you how much you spent on internet purchases that were not taxed. They then figure it into your tax liability.
Amazon has distribution centers here in Kentucky, and since they have a presence here. They collect tax for all shipments going to Kentucky.a majority of states are going after the online sellers like amazon for the taxes
Wrong. In SC one must remit the sales tax to SC that would have been paid just like it was bought in state.
Doesn't matter what you bought, firearm or not.
Amazon has distribution centers here in Kentucky, and since they have a presence here. They collect tax for all shipments going to Kentucky.
I'd say the number of people actually using it as a cuff is much, much higher.I would like to add this is all on the honor system and the percentage of people who actually pay use tax on online purchases is probably close to the percentage of sig brace owners that actually use the arm straps.
A majority of people should go after those who force all these taxes on usa majority of states are going after the online sellers like amazon for the taxes
Washington state finally figured out that they can require the FFLs to correct the use tax on firearms because of the state licenses they are required to have in addition to their FFLs.
YOU are suppose to pay YOUR state and local entities any sales tax that is due. That is true for any on-line sale where the seller does not have a physical presence in the buyers state.Dear friends, if u have purchased a gun online out of state from Buds, Cheaper, Cabellas or anybody else, how is the sales tax collected from the transaction?
Most of the time the gun comes with an invoice. If one isn't in the box then the dealer is supposed to make an educated guess. If it's a new gun then MSRP is a safe value to use. For a used gun he can base the value on recent GunBroker sales of that gun.Like Washington, California also mandates the transferring FFL to collect sales tax on firearms shipped from out of state as well as in state FTF purchases also mandated to be processed by an FFL.
My question is how do these FFL’s know how much the purchase amount is in order to calculate the sales tax unless a receipt/invoice is included with the item. Just curious since the only things I’ve ever bought online are ink cartridges and books from Amazon with tax collected by the retailer.
It comes down to the state as I'm sure others have already said.
Texas just made to where you pay taxes from online purchases from Amazon, but no where else. Just shows you how much business Amazon does.