Should states require collection of all state, county, and city sales and use taxes at the time of sales?
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This argument has been around for a long time and is still going on.  The problem is that there is not a single taxing authority for the filing and collection of sales tax monies.  So if your business sold items in all 50 states to 10 different counties in each state you could have to file 500 or more different sales tax returns sending money to 50 different places, etc etc etc.
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Sure,\nCertain state issued bonds and municipal bonds however have restrictions.
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A sales tax is a state or locality imposed percentage tax on the selling or renting of certain property or services. The fraction of the total taxes collected as sales taxes typically varies from about 25% to 50% of government revenue. Nearly all sales taxes have a large lists of goods and services, varying from state to state, that the tax is not collected on. Because the tax is collected from the customer, it is a consumption tax. In the United States, it is nearly always explicitly added on and not included in the price, a notable exception is sales taxes on gasoline. If a person purchases property from an out-of-state seller, sales tax is not due, but rather the customer may owe a so-called use tax. For example, if a person purchases a computer from a local brick-and-mortar retail store, the store will charge the state's sales tax. However, if that person purchases a computer over the internet or from an out-of-state mail-order seller, sales tax may not apply to the sale, but the person could possibly owe a use tax on the purchase. Because of exclusions on what is taxed and not taxed the typical consumer will pay on average about 1/3 of the listed sales tax on all his/her expenditures, i.e. a 7.5% tax will collect on average about 2.5% of a persons income.[citation needed] The sales tax revenues are typically split into several fractions going to the state, schools, counties, cities, public transit and possibly other jurisdictions. The size and split of these fractions vary significantly from state to state except in the states that do not have a sales tax. Additional taxes like Hotel tax, Rental car use fee, etc. that are really disguised sales taxes are imposed typically on non voting visitors to a given location.\n\nIdeally, a sales tax (under whatever name it's called) is fair, has a high compliance rate, is difficult to avoid, is charged exactly once on any one item, is simple to calculate and simple to collect. A conventional or retail sales tax attempts to achieve this by charging the tax only on the final retail transactions, not on intermediate businesses buying raw materials for production or finished goods for resale. This prevents so-called tax "cascading" or "pyramiding," in which an item is taxed more than once as it makes its way from production to final retail sale. Sales tax collection is well established in nearly all retail establishments and typically has a high tax compliance record in the United States. Many consider the sales tax as being nearly ideal since it taxes consumption but allows savings to grow untaxed.\n\nSales taxes are considered by some as regressive, that is, low income people tend to pay a greater percentage of their income in sales tax than higher income people, because they tend to spend a higher percentage of their income on taxed items. Others consider them one of the best taxes since they only tax consumption. In many locations items such as food, or prescription drugs are exempt from sales taxes to alleviate the burden on the poor. The loss of income is made up in other tax sources.\n\nA related type of tax is the value-added tax or VAT. It is a system in which all businesses remit taxes on their sales but they are also refunded the amount of VAT remitted by their suppliers. In addition to avoiding cascading, under VAT there is no need for government to determine which sales are taxable and which are not, since all sales--retail, wholesale and intermediate--are taxed. Some or all of these taxes may be refunded but it generates a lot of paperwork (and income). The VAT paperwork can be burdensome but it remains a major source of tax income for most European Union, Mexico and other countries which charge on average a 15-25% VAT rate. Canadian sales taxes range from 0% in Alberta to an effective 10.6% in Prince Edward Island where sales tax is also applied to the federal Goods and Services Tax.\n\nMost countries in the world have sales taxes or value-adde
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NO !! In most states cars are taxed based on where the customer  lives  not the tax rate of the city  in which the car was purchased AZ is an exception to this rule. In Certian states Such as Oregon there is not sale tax on automoblies. So one could buy a car in the State of WA and claim they lived in OR and get away without paying taxes,  you can also aviod paying taxes on a car if your an native american and you purchase the auto on a reservation.
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Yes of curse, get in touch with your county tax collector's office. Some counties have a combined assessor/collector. They will sell unpaid taxes either at auction sales or on an individual basis.
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Yes, if you are receiving the goods as the agent of the purchaser, and then promptly shipping the goods out of state or country, then you usually qualify for an exemption from the sales tax.\n\nExactly how you qualify for the exemption depends on your State's laws.  In most cases, you will have to acquire a resale or sales tax license from your State's sales tax authority, and to file a report each year.
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If you're just looking for an opinion...I would say yes.  Wisconsin tried that with Illinois companies and succeeded in enticing some companies to move.  We have a free market system and companies should be able to move regardless of the reasons.  Tax incentives and breaks only add to it.\n\nFor the other part of your question...Long time companies already operating within a certain state should be awarded the same incentives, those incentives should be based upon how long that company has been operating within the state.
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You don't. The whole point of LLCs is registering with the state once and then doing business around the US. If you have retail presence, you must register to pay sales taxes.
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Theoretically, the wages should be allotted based upon the amount earned while the employee lives in each state. However, the most important thing is that any state and local taxes that you withheld from the employee's pay is properly listed.
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With a few exceptions, a house is re-assessed for tax purposes every time it is sold.  There are a lot of reasons for this, but the primary one, as always with taxes, is that the county can get away with it!  More realistically, since the value of the property probably went up (that is, you are paying more than the people you are buying it from paid when they bought it), then the taxes are going to go up.  If it were not so, eventually property taxes would cease to be a significant source of revenue for the county, because their expenses and other taxes would go up while property taxes did not.  Taxes also go up when a higher percentage is assessed by the county, but that will still normally be a much less significant increase than the reassessment.  That is because all home-owning taxpayers get hit with that, whereas the reassessment only hits a few at a time.  Votes, you know!
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Sales tax is required on all boat sales. It would be exempt if the seller delivered it directly to you out of state. The state you're moving it to likely has a use tax for items bought out of state. You would likely receive a credit for this tax for any sales tax you paid to Texas, but that would depend on what state you're taking it to.
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Yes, sales tax, but you also may pay a local tax which could amount to like 1/4%, etc.
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This depends on the area you are doing business in. Every state has different regulations and many cities and counties have different requirements also. \n\nWhere are you staring your business?
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Of course it is. IF profit exists quarterly, taxes must be paid quarterly. IF you have employees, SS wages must be paid whenever an amount exceeding 500.00 is due. IF filings and payments are not made, serious penalties and interest will be levied by the government agencies involved...federal, state, and often local. Sales taxes must be paid quarterly, on time. Otherwise, more fines will be levied.
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It depends entirely on the state.
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Yes. One must find out what is required to a town or city and full fill the code. You have to have a fire dept., a police dept., a city administration, and schools. Or at least be able to pay to farm them out to another local municipality and pay for them. Your taxes should rise exponentially. You must also file a declaration of municipality and guide lines of how it is going to be run. Then you hope you don't fall under somebody Else's municipality who doesn't want to let you go.
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With our municipal, county, state and federal taxes.