I just ordered a Sharp MD722 from Mercata.com. Although there is a tax
column in the invoice that was sent to me, the tax amount was listed as
0.00. New Mexico does have a sales tax, but, like every online merchant that
I have purchased from, no tax was charged.
Aaron Prager
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:52 PM
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Subject: Re: MD: Shrp boom box md
Dan Frakes wrote:
>
> BTW, this isn't really a boom box... it's a shelf system. I was looking
> for a portable system which I why I had trouble finding it ;)
Thanks for the info. I ordered one. Hopefully it is an AUX input. The
apartment were I am moving to is small and I really don't have room for
the surround system that I have in my current bedroom.
The is one problem with Mercata. They add sales tax, However, they
don't even add the correct amount. They over charge you. I have
notified them about this.
I wonder if they pay the taxes to all 49 states- (DE does not have sales
tax). It is very unusual for most e commerce businesses to charge tax
except in the states were they are physically located.
The big "boys" do (like Lands End etc). Again I don't see why though.
Why bother with the extra bookkeeping since you are not required to?
I'll be that even the "big boys" "shave" they pay to outside states.
Think about it. A state outside of the state you are located in can not
audit your sales tax books because you have no legal obligation to
collect the tax in the first place.
You understate you gross sales by 25% and if you are big enough you have
picked up an nice little nest egg by the end of the year. After the FTC
thing with huge companies like Macys and Toys R US, I would not be
surprised to find these kinds of practices going on.
Lets face it. Anytime that a state collects any sales tax from a
company not located in that state it is a "gift" Though technically the
buyer is supposed to voluntarily pay the state tax, this almost never
happens.
So any tax the state gets from out of state is "found money". Be
careful of buying from neighboring states. I once bought $1000 worth of
audio equipment from a mail order company in NYC.
Three years later I got a letter from the PA tax department telling me
that the NY business had a tax audit and I owed PA $60 plus interest.
They didn't give me very long to pay it either.
If that ever happens again, I'm going to tell them about all of the mail
in rebates that I received as far as the statue allows you to go back
and request a refund plus interest.
If someone filed a class action suit against a state already have
financial troubles, if you won you might bankrupt the state. I really
think that a person would have a strong case with regard to rebates.
Why should a mail in rebate differ from an instant rebate? If you
receive an instant rebate, you are only taxed on the price that you
actually paid. On a mail in rebate, just because there is a delay, our
actual purchase price is still the price you paid in the store minus the
rebate.
Just my dumb 2 cents
Nasty Larry
(I have a tiny little part in an independent film called The Cancer
where I play this pervert into porn whose name is Nasty Larry. I film
porn and stuff like that, but it's a real small part (plus we have to
hope that someone will pick up the film).
BTW, Blair Witch was NOT shot on video. That's all BS. they did it to
hype the movie. But the movie I will be in is going to be shot on
video.
The quality of video is getting so good that it is approaching film. A
lot of what you see in films is really video (computer aided what ever
they call it) anyway transferred to film
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