paying tax on across state ffl transfers

[Kharn]

Ask the dealer for his Arizona tax certificate number. Every state issues a number to anyone authorized to collect that state's tax. If he doesnt have one, he cant legally collect tax for them.

Kharn

 

[idakfan]

Shop around.

That's total B.S.

I've never paid tax on a FFL transfer.

Go to a different FFL.

 

[Graystar]

In NY State, which is pretty tax-heavy, you only pay NY sales tax on out-of-state purchases if the seller has some kind of "physical presence" in NY--like a retail store, or a business office, etc. So if I order from Sears, even if my order is made over the phone to some other state and shipped from there, I pay NY tax, but if I order from L.L. Bean, who have no retail stores or business offices outside of Maine, I don't.

That's right. But you have to pay a use tax.

New York State Consolidated Laws
Tax
Part II Imposition Of Tax
S 1110. Imposition of compensating use tax. (a) Except to the extent
that property or services have already been or will be subject to the
sales tax under this article, there is hereby imposed on every person a
use tax for the use within this state on and after June first, nineteen
hundred seventy-one except as otherwise exempted under this article, (A)
of any tangible personal property purchased at retail,...

(b) For purposes of clause (A) of subdivision (a) of this section, the
tax shall be at the rate of four percent of the consideration given or
contracted to be given for such property, or for the use of such
property, including any charges for shipping or delivery as described in
paragraph three of subdivision (b) of section eleven hundred one, but
excluding any credit for tangible personal property accepted in part
payment and intended for resale.