Is labor in California subject to sales tax?
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I assume that you mean you paid someone for a service.  This is not subject to sales tax.  The only things that would be are tangible goods that you receive.  There may be some warranted sales tax if they provided goods as a part of the work.  \nFor example, if you had a gardener do work, they could charge you for the plants, etc that they put in.  Sames as at an auto shop.  Sales tax should be charged on any of the parts they put in, but not on the labor.
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This is a subject of the State Government concerned.From your query it is not clear in which State you are located.However, in most of the States; it is leviable.The activity spcified by you is liable to Works Contract Tax.
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California definitely has the higher cost of living.  The sales tax you pay is can be as high as 8.75%.  Here in Ohio the sales tax is usually no higher than 7%.  Gas in some parts of California is well over $3.00 a gallon.  Gas in Cincinnati yesterday was $2.69.  Housing is much more expensive in California.  My parents were wanting to retire in southern California and gave that up since they could only buy a shack for the same price their house is here in Ohio.
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Are you state/local tax exempt or are you federal tax exempt?  If you're only federal exempt then you might have to pay the sales tax.  Sales tax is typically a state level or local thing.
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No, unless the particular reservation has an agreement with the state to pay sales tax.  Most don't.
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no there is no sales tax\nnot even when buying if it is not a new house
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sales tax is not the same as income taxes
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Call the California Labor Board. They are usually very helpful, friendly and willing to read the law to you and to go after employers who clearly violate the law.  Most of the state employees who work labor departments are thrilled to go after employers who violate the law. This justifies their job and helps with their performance evaluations.\n\nIn this case, your employer may not be violating any law, so just get the facts directly from the Labor department. Help is a phone call away.
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try looking on the california web site.
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Go to the State Website and search for Sales Tax.
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yes, but when you get back to ca you still need to register it there. better idea, don't live in ca.
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There are a lot of facts I would want to know to give you a definitive answer, but in general employee gifts that have significant value are taxable to employees in the same manner as wages.
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No it will be considered overcharging your customers. If a customer finds out, by comparing your sales tax to another sales tax of the same county, he/she can sue you.\n\nTo clarify, California State Tax is 7.25% and then each county / district adds their own tax on top of that. San Francisco Bay Area is 1% while Orange County is only .5% which makes Orange Country’s total tax rate 7.75% and the San Francisco Bay Area 8.25%. If an item was purchased in Orange County but was shipped from San Francisco only Orange County’s tax rate of 7.75% would apply.
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Taxes are usually based on the origin of sale. If you reside in the state the seller does business in, you can pretty much be guaranteed that you will pay a sales tax.
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Sales tax is charged by State Government and thus the rates differs from state to state depending on their respective priorities and other factors.
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Look in the CA business and professions code.
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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