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From: pre1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re: minix orders
Message-ID: <2309@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 21:31:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2309
Posted: Fri Sep 25 21:31:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 06:21:15 EDT
References: <90@winfree.UUCP> <2698@eecae.UUCP> <142@tscs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pre1@sphinx.UUCP (Grant Prellwitz)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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In article <142@tscs.UUCP> gerard@tscs.UUCP (system administrator) writes:
-In article <2698@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.UUCP (John Lawitzke) writes:
->> I got back a set of disks,
->> and a bill for sales tax!  NOWHERE on the card did it imply that sales
->> tax was not included in the purchase price.
->
->As I understand tax laws, if you mail order something from a different
->state, they can not legally charge you sales tax. If they do, they're
->probably just pocketing the money.
-
-If you live in state X, and purchase from company C in state Y, Company
-C does not have to pay/collect state Y sales tax if that product is shipped
-to state X.  However if company C has an office in state X, they are required
-to collect state sales tax on behalf of state X and send that tax to state X.
-If state X audits company C's books and finds sales that were shipped to state
-X from state Y, company C must provide valid tax exemption certificates for
-each customer or else pay the corresponding amount of state X sales tax out
-of their own pockets.
-UUCP: ...{codas, gatech}!usfvax2!tscs!gerard
-US-MAIL: Post Office Box 15395 - Tampa, Florida  33684-5395


I live in Illinois.  The Illinois government considers software to to an 
intangible item and therefore non-taxable.  I know this because I work in a
computer retail store and consequently sell software.  I was therefore 
surprised when Prentice Hall charged me sales tax.  I figured that this was 
because they were used to dealing in books, which are taxable.  I paid all of
my bill except for the tax and sent a letter explaining the Illinois law to
Prentice-Hall.  I have now received another bill for the tax.  It should make
no difference where their offices are located because the tax is supposed to
get to the Illinois government.  I'll let you know what happens.

		Grant Prellwitz

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