An ODDITY of Online Sales Taxation

[MegalosSkylaki]

Hmmmm.seems that if you get memory from Crucial on East side of Manhattan (Borough) NYC, you get hit with a Sales Tax.

But if you buy Crucial memory from the West Side of Borough of Manhattan, NYC , you DON't.

Central Park separates East from West side of Manhattan.

Huh ?

Well I heard/was told or something that it is according to whether the Warehouse it is delivered from-- and if Crucial has a major business interest in that State where the WAREHOUSE is .

Maybe West side gets delivered from NJ while East side gets delivered by Long Island, NY or something like that .

Really bizarre , huh ?
Hard to believe, huh ?

DOOOOG

[dunbar]

Zip codes? Random thinking fleas in the various web servers?
Welcome to the new internet, where taxes are a thing of the present.
FWIW, or FWINW, I think the rules would have this thread relocated to "General Discussion & Buyer Guidance".

[hidiver1]

The UN is on the east side of Manhattan - must be their fault.

[shrae]

I've been told many times by various resellers that necessity to apply sales tax is determined by the presence of warehouses in the buyers' home state (amazon.com is one of many resellers who say this). Is it possible that the law actually applies to the location of the warehouse from which the product is distributed? That is, the initial statement is not always correct because it assumes that the warehouse in the state will be doing the distribution for buyers in that state.

It'd be interesting to find out the true law and the correct application, since I doubt most of the items that I order from, say, amazon.com, actually come from warehouses in my state.

[osprey4]

There's no way people from different parts of a state should pay different amounts of sale tax. It has nothing to do with where the stuff is shipped from. If a store operates a retail business in the state, they should charge tax, otherwise they should not.