Text 6633, 27 rader
Skriven 2010-04-05 22:23:36 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 6603 av John Guillory (1:396/45)
Ärende: Property taxes
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04 Apr 10 22:31, John Guillory wrote to Roy Witt:

 JG> -> That's where we differ. There is no tax on services here. i.e.
 JG> When I buy -> raw material to machine or fabricate something for a
 JG> customer, I charge -> them for the material with a small profit and a
 JG> sales tax on that -> material, but no tax on my labor charges.
 JG>    Yup, and that's where it's all messed up here...  I can get a
 JG> reseller's license and buy parts for my customers, pay wholesale
 JG> prices generally and be able to mark it up decently... But then I
 JG> have to charge sales tax to them and fill out monthly and quartly
 JG> paperwork. Now on the other hand, if I allow them to buy the part and
 JG> charge them a fee to install it, or even buy the part for them and
 JG> charge them a finder's fee, then install it and charge them a fee for
 JG> installing it... Then I don't need the paperwork of taxes, i don't
 JG> need to charge them sales tax, etc...  Make any sense?  Not a bit,
 JG> but it's how the government functions...

What I've done and what you can do is give your reseller's tax certificate
back to the state and pay the taxes on the materials/parts you buy for
your customers. Then you're not a tax collector and won't have all that
damned paper work to do. That makes more sense to me.

                R\%/itt

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