Or was that Delaware. It's seemed bizarre to me to form where I wasn't located so I went against my account's advice and formded in NY.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (Margaret) Michele Waldman Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:39 PM To: 'NYPHP Talk' Subject: RE: [nyphp-talk] calculating state taxes? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Campbell Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:32 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] calculating state taxes? On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:14 PM, (Margaret) Michele Waldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another question. > > Is an ebusinesses supposed to file taxes and licenses in every state they > are doing business? No, only in states which they have a "nexus". The judicial system ruled that it is too much of a burden for small businesses to file taxes covering 4000+ tax jurisdictions. > How else are those sales taxes paid? They aren't. > If you charge them you are supposed to pay them to the state. Don't charge sales tax for states you don't have to. > NY has a line on the tax return for people to pay their online purchases > taxes. Yeah, but the number of people who actually do this can be counted on one hand. > That's crazy. If the store is in NJ, it should pay NJ taxes. That's where > the product is being sold and shipped from. Why should a customer in California have to pay NJ sales taxes? If that was the case, every mail order business in the country would be located in New Hampshire where there is no sales tax. ***** That's why a lot of companies not even located in New Hampshire form there. I was advised by my accountant to form there, not New York for the savings of filing and publication fees. You don't have to be located in the state where you form your company apparently. > You would definitely need a cron job to keep track of the changing sales > taxes. You only have to keep track in NJ. It doesn't change that often. You generally only have to make updates 1 a year... and for sales tax holidays. -John C. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
