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Melody, when the forum moves on the 30th, does that mean that the pore Californians burdened so long under the wretched sales tax will at last be free free free as of May 30th? Or must we wait more time to be yet unnamed? 😆
Good question! I’d also like to know when sales tax on Windstone direct pieces will be ending for Californians. 😀
drgnlvr wrote:Melody, when the forum moves on the 30th, does that mean that the pore Californians burdened so long under the wretched sales tax will at last be free free free as of May 30th? Or must we wait more time to be yet unnamed? 😆
Gad , I have no idea, there is no sales tax in OR!Does that mean we don’t charge any??? Hadn’t even thought about it!!
I HOPE not!! The sales tax has almost stopped me from being able teo buy some things.Well at least for a couple seconds anyway!!
Yes, as much as living near the factory in CA would be cool, 8.25% tax is TOUGH on things over several hundred dollars. Sad to say, thats one of the reasons I dont buy from Texas stores is that we have the same sales tax. Paying an extra 10-30 on something just to be able to pick it up in person, plus the gas needed for the 45 minute drive to the nearest store. Oy.
Especially the SKs…for 1000dollars, nearly 82dollars in tax and another 34 for shipping is killer.
If OR doesnt have sales tax, I guess you wouldnt charge it.
Melody wrote:drgnlvr wrote:Melody, when the forum moves on the 30th, does that mean that the pore Californians burdened so long under the wretched sales tax will at last be free free free as of May 30th? Or must we wait more time to be yet unnamed? 😆
Gad , I have no idea, there is no sales tax in OR!Does that mean we don’t charge any??? Hadn’t even thought about it!!
Melody, this depends on the laws of where you are sending items. e.g. technically here in NY, they are passing laws (I don’t know if they have passed yet or if they are still trying to pass them) that any company that sells items to us via internet must charge and collect, then send in NY sales tax. It’s really confusing and terrible for mail and e-merchants!! I wish they’d be happy with the taxes we already pay… well over 1/4th of my income is taxed away, and that’s just on my income.
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Jennifer wrote:[Melody, this depends on the laws of where you are sending items. e.g. technically here in NY, they are passing laws (I don’t know if they have passed yet or if they are still trying to pass them) that any company that sells items to us via internet must charge and collect, then send in NY sales tax. It’s really confusing and terrible for mail and e-merchants!!
This is the “affiliate” tax, talked about Here.
At the moment this wouldn’t affect lone operators like Astral Castle (we have to charge you sales tax if you have your package shipped within Texas, but not otherwise), but it’s a clear precedent to later making claims like “You have your business in Texas, and your web site is hosted on a server in Texas, but your Internet provider has a division in New York, so from now on you pay New York sales tax on anything you ship to New York”.
Of course if New York does something and it works, other States will not be far behind.
The problem I see is that without a National Sales Tax (warning: touchy subject), collected locally, the burden on small businesses to actually figure out the amounts and make the monthly tax payments to every State that wants us to collect it on their behalf is going to put a lot of us out of business. There are ideas for tying in directly to the software that runs every Internet shopping cart, but (for example) I use a shopping cart system from the last Century. It would cost me thousands of dollars to upgrade to the point where the proposed tax collecting software could interface with it. And it would ruin my business model in the process.
But if we were instead to move to a National Sales Tax, that overrules the rights of States like Oregon to not collect sales tax. Taking away the rights of individual States is where this all gets into the realm of fighting talk.
It’s a quagmire we’re in.
😯 Oooyyy! 😯 What a head ache! State rights vs. Federal rights…. I don’t even want to go there…
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Well when I get the money I will have to drive up to Oregon and get the now regular productions SK’s so the sale will happen up there with no sales tax!!
The tax money I save on that much will cover about 1/2 the gas it will take to drive up there! I hope it would be 1/2Dragon Master wrote:Well when I get the money I will have to drive up to Oregon and get the now regular productions SK’s so the sale will happen up there with no sales tax!!
The tax money I save on that much will cover about 1/2 the gas it will take to drive up there! I hope it would be 1/2If you wait until Windstone closes the CA operation and no-longer has a business presence in CA, they won’t need to charge anyone sales tax for any transaction. Unless the laws change later, of course.
My question still is, what determines when the factory “no longer has a presence in California”. If that is May 30th when the forum is moved, then anything we order from the online store after that date should be tax free, should it not if the “store” is now officially in Oregon which is tax free? If the laws change, we will deal with that when the time comes, but for now, Oregon is tax free, and what we order online in California from Oregon is tax free. It shouldn’t matter whether every brick and dragon is in place yet, the shipping address is still out of Oregon once the store is moved, is it not? So the tax should not be charged any more either. Not that I have any vested interest in this, you understand, no more than the few $$$$$illion I have spent on taxes already and want to spend on Windstones instead! 😆 Am I right?
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