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Originally Posted by Fire4Effect
One of the gun show dealers that I buy from regularly, and who also takes cards, pointed something out to me that I had overlooked. If I paid cash then I paid the price as marked or agreed upon. If I paid with a card then I was charged sales tax.
The laws pertaining to sales tax don't change depending on whether the payment is rendered in cash or by credit card. What your dealer pointed out to you is that he cheats by hiding or fudging the numbers on cash sales, which he can't do on a credit card transaction because there's a paper trail.
Apparently a majority of gun people (based on a previous thread I started regarding the impropriety of the surcharge on use of credit cards) don't seem to find anything wrong with dealers breaking the law if it saves them a few bucks. Personally, I have a problem with it.