rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

Here's why:

Remote seller's sales tax: Effective January 1, 2019 but not enforced until October 1, 2019

BebuLamar

I should have said they didn't collect Texas sales tax. None of the tax money goes into B&H revenue. They don't charge any tax. Although today at a restaurant they charged me tip.

nadelewitz Loc: Ithaca NY

A business does not actually have to collect sales tax as a separate charge. A business just has to REMIT sales taxes to the state based on total sales. If the tax is charged separately, okay. If the business does not charge it separately, they just have to remit to the state the correct percentage of their sales.

Example: I (business authorized to collect sales taxes by my state) sell an item for $100.00. I can charge the customer the tax separately, say $8.00 in my state, so the total is $108.00.

Or......I can not "charge" the sales tax to the customer at all, but I still have to remit to the state taxes on the sale. So I could raise the selling price to $108.00 and remit 8% of it to the state. I still end up with $100.00 (rounded out) and the state gets theirs. And the customer happily thinks they were not "charged" sales tax.

The second option is what I did as manager of a small business....a concession stand at a high school athletic stadium. We did not add sales tax to purchases. Too complicated to deal with. We just remitted 8% of our sales to the state. The state does not care how you GET the 8%. They just care that you REMIT it to them.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

So in other words the buyer may be responsible for reporting the sales tax on their state return until then?

henryp Loc: New York, NY

As someone else here was kind enough to observe, retailers collect, not charge, sales tax. I do not believe Pennsylvania has every required us to collect their state sales tax. I do not see any sales tax added to any of your orders from 2018 or 2019.

Pennsylvania Revenue chief explains the state's new online sales tax law
https://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pennsylvania-online-sales-amazon-20180307-story.html
"(Online retailers) have the option of collecting and remitting sales taxes at the point of sale and then making monthly payment transfers to the state. Or they can opt to send annual tax notices to their customers and to the Revenue Department about each item purchased in the state ... Online businesses had until Feb. 28 to register their preferred reporting standard with Revenue. They have until April 1 to begin collecting the tax if that is what they are doing, or to send these notices."