Help Calculating NYS Sales Tax

[jpstephens]

Hey guys....

I am looking to put all my products up on ebay within the week....Please help! I am stuck because I don't know what to put for sales tax on ebay, i know I charge NYS people cause I am from NY but do I also charge from where it ships? and what is the rate because ebay allows 1 rate to be entered and NYS charges a different rate for each county....

HELP!!!!

[webgal]

I have a client in NY. I'll ask.

[jpstephens]

Thank you...any help from anyone would be of great assistance.

Thanks again

[webgal]

It's 8.375% for NY residents.

And ebay does have a place on the auction form to fill that in.

[TimW]

That's one of the banes of online stores. As it sits, tax does not need to be charged for online transactions (interstate) anyplace that the online business/business does not have a physical location. That's why Amazon doesn't charge sales tax, and Barnes and Noble does....most states have a B&N store in them, somewhere.

The US Supreme Court's decision basically ruled that if the item was being shipped to a different state, then sales tax wasn't applicable, since the recipient was responsible for paying their home state a use-tax on the item they bought.

As the exception proves the rule, there are states that require some companies to charge sales tax for all sales made within that state...California / Amazon being one example.

In Arizona, different cities and counties have different rates, too, added to the state sales-tax rate. The generally accepted prinicple that I follow is to charge my city's tax rate for all sales made within the state. Technically, I could probably get away with charging only the state/county sales tax for sales made outside my city limits, but the hassles involved in doing so do not outweigh the miniscule difference I would save.

TimW
Phoenix