Actually.....
They are not obligated to collect the sales tax, but YOU are obligated to
remit it to the State of Georgia as a Use Tax. No one does, but technically
you're not paying your taxes.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dacey" <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Is Olympus going bankrupt? Am I a creditor?
>
> On 8/18/05, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Actually, fortunately for me, no taxes are involved, because I live in
>> Georgia and ordered the gear from New York. Generally, because sales
>> taxes in the U.S. are state taxes, they're collected only when the seller
>> has a place of business in the same state as the point of delivery,
>> whether delivery is hand-to-hand or shipped by UPS, Fed-X, et al. That's
>> one of the biggest incentives I have for buying from B&H, Adorama, and
>> Calumet: none of them have a store in Georgia. By not buying the E-1,
>> 14-54 and LWMNBN in Atlanta, I saved something like $180 in sales taxes.
>> I consider that a good trade-off for $30 in shipping costs and a four-day
>> wait. :-)
>
> As far as I know, it's different in Canada. I always pay federal and
> provincial sales tax for my province regardless of where the item came
> from. So even if I ordered an item from Alberta (which has no
> provincial sales tax) I'd pay 15% tax instead of just the 7% federal
> sales tax.
>
> Gets a little interesting with international stuff because the customs
> people are supposed to charge tax on it but sometimes you get lucky
> and they don't or you get the item declared in such a way that their
> not supposed to tax you on it ("used camera returned from warranty
> service" is a nice one to use). On the downside, they also have the
> right to assess the item at a different value than the declared value
> and tax it accordingly. I once had an Olympus (see on topic!) macro
> flash shoe ring arrive from the US and was taxed as if the item was
> worth several hundred dollars even though I only paid around $50 and
> that was the declared value. You can appeal the assessment but it's a
> long and slow process. I had just received $600 worth of OM gear a
> couple weeks before and not been taxed at all on that so I figured it
> all balanced out and didn't pursue it.
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