Mr. Bill
Henry Posner wrote:
At 02:56 PM 2/5/2004 +0100, EOS-Digest wrote:
Some years ago I lived in New Jersey USA and then (as now!) frequently
bought equipment from B&H Photo via mail order. I received one day a letter
from the New Jersey taxation authority with an order to pay New Jersey sales
tax on several of the items I had purchased. As I recall from a phone
conversation with one of the very helpful and sympathetic people at B&H, the
New York taxation authority had audited B&H's accounts. In a subsequent
conversation with an attorney, I learned that because New York and New
Jersey (and maybe Connecticut) had reciprocal tax agreements, I was
obligated to pay the back taxes.
There is an article in the NYTimes dated Feb 5, 2004 titled "Forthrightness put to the test by a new item on tax forms," which says that NYState will, for tax year 2003, ask NY taxpayers to pony up use tax for items purchased out of state on a voluntary basis.
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