07-28-2007, 04:42 PM
I don't know why I thought you lived in NY, either. 
I think I was reading too many posts in too short a period of time. And too early, like before the brain fully kicked into gear.
This now makes more sense, although I still don't understand all of it, and that's partly because, like M A V I C, our business was run out of Washington. Up here, buying materials without paying sales tax is not the most advantageous way to go about doing business for some people. That, of course, still leaves me confused on the "double tax" piece you mention, but that could be just the way things are phrased in the posts. As GeneL has already pointed out, it's not the business owner who actually pays the sales tax on the final product, they just collect it from the customer and transfer the money to the appropriate entities.
I think I was reading too many posts in too short a period of time. And too early, like before the brain fully kicked into gear.This now makes more sense, although I still don't understand all of it, and that's partly because, like M A V I C, our business was run out of Washington. Up here, buying materials without paying sales tax is not the most advantageous way to go about doing business for some people. That, of course, still leaves me confused on the "double tax" piece you mention, but that could be just the way things are phrased in the posts. As GeneL has already pointed out, it's not the business owner who actually pays the sales tax on the final product, they just collect it from the customer and transfer the money to the appropriate entities.