Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site convex Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ayers From: ayers@convex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.taxes Subject: Re: Do Employees Pay Sales Tax? Message-ID: <51600002@convex> Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 15:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: convex.51600002 Posted: Tue Mar 4 15:20:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 04:12:09 EST References: <11946@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU:11946:convex:51600002:000:600 Nf-From: convex.UUCP!ayers Mar 4 14:20:00 1986 >...The scenario I would like to be true is that the bookstore >does not sell books to me, rather that as part of the company persona >I am buying directly from the publishers, who happen to be selling to >me at a lower price and so I am exempt from sales taxes. The problem is that the store is not "exempt" from sales tax. If they take something off the shelf to use (typing paper? a book on taxes?), they pay the state a tax that is equal to the sales tax on the item. Or at least that's the way it's been in the two states I've been in business in... blues, II