No taxes Eggs

[linustouchtips]

Okay am i getting away with this or am i going crazy Newegg is not charging any taxes for me in New York. Amazon was taxing the crap out of me. Went to Newegg no taxes went with Newegg i probably wont see these purchases till next year though cause i live on the east coast. Is this dirty. 

[WindirBear]

This sounds like a complaint. Give yourself an audit by the end of the year.

 

[arbellason55]

It's been like that for a while now, Newegg doesn't tax but Amazon does. 

[Chaoix]

Technically you are required by state law to file use taxes for online purchases where sales tax wasn't collected. In practice this is only necessary for extremely large purchases (cars or houses for example).

Newegg is able to not charge sales tax in states where they have no physical presence as a company.

[linustouchtips]

Just now, Chaoix said:

Technically you are required by state law to file use taxes for online purchases where sales tax wasn't collected. In practice this is only necessary for extremely large purchases (cars or houses for example).

Newegg is able to not charge sales tax in states where they have no physical presence as a company.

headphones that were 20 bucks i refuse

[NumLock21]

States that don't have a Newegg warehouse don't charge tax. There was a time where Newegg would also charge tax for every state and that quickly got removed.

[Donut417]

15 hours ago, linustouchtips said:

Okay am i getting away with this or am i going crazy Newegg is not charging any taxes for me in New York. Amazon was taxing the crap out of me. Went to Newegg no taxes went with Newegg i probably wont see these purchases till next year though cause i live on the east coast. Is this dirty. 

Every web retailer is different. Newegg doesn't charge tax in Michgian. Why? Well according to Michigan Law, only businesses who have a direct presence in this state have to charge tax. Amazon has many warehouses in Michigan due to the new bridge to Canada going in to Detroit. Amazon just recently decided to charge tax in all 50 states. Newegg doesn't have this policy from what I have seen. 

[GDRRiley]

Newegg only has a few locations, CA (sucks for me) and a few in the middle of the country 

[yathis]

4 hours ago, Donut417 said:

direct presence in this state

very vague and open to interpretation without having the exact wording.

[Donut417]

7 hours ago, yathis said:

very vague and open to interpretation without having the exact wording.

Not really. Just means if the company operates any facilities in the state then they have to collect tax. Technically speaking all online items in Michigan have sales tax attached. If the company doesn't collect sales tax then us citizens are supposed to report it on our taxes each year. We dont, but we are suppose to. 

[yathis]

On 4/1/2017 at 10:41 AM, Donut417 said:

Technically speaking all online items in Michigan have sales tax attached.

Of course

The Gov't knows no customers are reporting shit.

Facility would be a web page, would it be where the web site is hosted. Its like ships, there are 4 countries attached to a commercial ship.

[Chaoix]

On 4/1/2017 at 0:36 AM, Donut417 said:

Every web retailer is different. Newegg doesn't charge tax in Michgian. Why? Well according to Michigan Law, only businesses who have a direct presence in this state have to charge tax. Amazon has many warehouses in Michigan due to the new bridge to Canada going in to Detroit. Amazon just recently decided to charge tax in all 50 states. Newegg doesn't have this policy from what I have seen. 

The stance the IRS takes on this now is working with the largest retailers to implement a system that makes paying sales tax in all 50 states online feasible. Unfortunately Amazon gets singled out alot by tax policy makers. A great example of this is the digital goods VAT laws that were implemented in the EU in 2015.

 

Honestly though, with the amount of commerce moving to online only retail, I would expect a sales tax requirement for all 50 states to appear in the next 7 to 10 years. There are also US supported companies that are working to make this problem easier to solve for small businesses such as TaxCloud:

https://taxcloud.net/

[Eaglerino]

The laws currently say (some are trying to change it, hopefully it doesn't happen) that you can only charge online sales tax if that business has a building in your state

[AresKrieger]

On 4/1/2017 at 0:36 AM, Donut417 said:

decided to charge tax in all 50 states. Newegg doesn't have this policy from what I have seen. 

Not all 50 states have sales taxes, so in all states that have a tax is a more correct statement

[Hunter7263]

On 3/31/2017 at 7:38 AM, linustouchtips said:

Okay am i getting away with this or am i going crazy Newegg is not charging any taxes for me in New York. Amazon was taxing the crap out of me. Went to Newegg no taxes went with Newegg i probably wont see these purchases till next year though cause i live on the east coast. Is this dirty. 

Companies dont have to collect out of state tax. If a company has a physical warehouse in a state they must charge sales tax in that state if its applicable. Most states now have started to charge you when you pay your taxes if you made any untaxed purchases. Its currently nearly impossible to verify. Amazon knows that in many states its coming that they will be required to collect those taxes so in many states they have been starting to collect taxes in places that didnt before. Newegg is big enough that I bet they will start charging tax in every state. Its easier to get that system in place at thier own pace than at the pace set by what ever state or possibly the federal government.