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Apple Reminds Customers in Some U.S. States of Upcoming Sales Tax Holidays

NeroAZ said:
We used to have a permanent tax holiday called Amazon.com, but the state of AZ sued them, and I guess since we have 2 or 3 distribution centers here, they now charge us tax. :/
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Hate to burst your bubble, but you never had a legal tax holiday on Amazon. It has always been and continues to be the responsibility of online shoppers to pay sales tax on all online purchases as part of their annual income tax filing. Given that almost no one does this, certain states have taken it upon themselves to put the burden on the seller to collect said tax.

You never had a tax holiday; you were simply engaging in tax evasion.
 
Sucks that it's now and the new Retina MBP are not out.

Basically I'm lucky enough to live near DELAWARE so I can just drive there to an Apple store and buy it on site without any sales tax.
 
Georgij said:
People blame Apple when they avoid legally tax. But they themselves like to buy stuff on tax holiday. :rolleyes:
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*Sigh* we couldn't have a thread without passive aggressive comments? Yours aren't even clever.
 
mikeoui said:
Hate to burst your bubble, but you never had a legal tax holiday on Amazon. It has always been and continues to be the responsibility of online shoppers to pay sales tax on all online purchases as part of their annual income tax filing. Given that almost no one does this, certain states have taken it upon themselves to put the burden on the seller to collect said tax.

You never had a tax holiday; you were simply engaging in tax evasion.
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Correction.
Sales tax are always collected from merchants for the sale.
The merchants then decided to transfer the responsibility to the consumers by charging them the tax.

Speaking of which, what about those of us out of state customers going into these states to buy the items?
 
NeroAZ said:
We used to have a permanent tax holiday called Amazon.com, but the state of AZ sued them, and I guess since we have 2 or 3 distribution centers here, they now charge us tax. :/
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This is so silly. Why should rules be different when it comes to online merchants?

B4U said:
Correction.
Sales tax are always collected from merchants for the sale.
The merchants then decided to transfer the responsibility to the consumers by charging them the tax.

Speaking of which, what about those of us out of state customers going into these states to buy the items?
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It gets confused quite a lot. Much of the time if sales tax wasn't paid, you owe use tax. It varies by state.
 
twoehr said:
I thought the same. I see Georgia's limit is $1k. Neither looks like its even the first $ amount is tax free and the rest isn't, it's an all or nothing kind of thing.
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This makes me sad. I was looking for a similar rule where the first $750 of the MacBook Pro is tax-free but, nada.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Or, you know, just shop in New Hampshire. I think there's another state without sales tax, but I do most of my shopping in NH.
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You, and a big portion of the folks in NE Massachusetts.

Funny how both Salem and Nashua NH have large malls very close to the MA border. Funny how most of the cars in the both parking lots have MA license plates. Funny how those are the only two places in NH with Apple retail stores.

NH exports a LOT of Apple stuff to MA every year. Yay NH!
 
GSPice said:
If California had a tax holiday, 30% of its residents would starve, die, or not be able to afford lottery tickets.
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onepremiere said:
this!
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Agreed, Well played!

Being currently in California, I can't wait until I can uproot my family and move up to the Portland area; beautiful scenery, and no state sales tax at all. Then the tax holiday issue becomes a non-issue outright.

BL.
 
Question

Curious about this... could you purchase online and have delivered to an Apple Store in a tax free state that you don't live in? I ask because I'm taking a road trip right about that time and I could pick up while I'm passing through.
 
Question

I am a student/resident of Colorado (no tax holiday), but I will be in Missouri during their tax holiday period (August 2-4).

Is there a way that I can take advantage of the education pricing PLUS the tax holiday in Missouri? Thanks in advance.
 
ArcaneDevice said:
I'll swap you. You can have the last remaining tax holiday in NC and I'll take not having to do your own taxes every year or paying an accountant to do it.
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Good luck with that, I've just paid my accountant about £2500 ($4000) to do my taxes in the UK.
 
I just moved to Atlanta, GA two weeks ago from Philly where we do not have a "Tax Holiday."

Does this only work if you're purchasing at an Apple retail store or Apple.com? I have a $170 Best Buy Gift Card that I'd like to use toward an iPad Mini.

Thanks for the help in advance!
 
Death to taxes
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... which would then precipitate the death of every public service. No more law enforcement. No more infrastructure repairs. No more public education. Back to the days of the settlers! Forward into the past!

I have no problem with taxes. I have a big problem how with the money that I'm forced to give to the government is spent. I would appreciate having more control over where my money goes.

There was new wrinkle in my state taxes this year: a section of the tax form asked me to declare everything that was bought online over the previous year. I had a choice: I could either itemize each thing and then manually figure out what I owed, or just hand over an extra $72 to the state and call it even. (Actually, I call that extortion.) But even though I keep records, there was no way I was going to go back and manually figure out the total of all my online purchases. At least Apple automatically taxes my sales, and they usually constitute the bulk of my online purchases. But still, that was a big pain.

Now if Apple would come out with the new Mac Pro on no-tax weekend, they'd have an instant sale! :D
 
CU125 said:
I just moved to Atlanta, GA two weeks ago from Philly where we do not have a "Tax Holiday."

Does this only work if you're purchasing at an Apple retail store or Apple.com? I have a $170 Best Buy Gift Card that I'd like to use toward an iPad Mini.

Thanks for the help in advance!
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I'm not in Georgia, but NC.

Last year on our tax holiday, I ordered online at Apple.com and they recognized the tax holiday. I had the purchase ship to the Apple store where I picked it up. They would have done the same for an in-store purchase. The limitation is that it has to be a qualified item according to your state's guidelines.
 
Georgij said:
People blame Apple when they avoid legally tax. But they themselves like to buy stuff on tax holiday. :rolleyes:
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or just online and then not report it. It is always ok with the "little guy" does it, but as soon as a corporation does something...watch out.

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technopimp said:
Or you could just order from someplace like macmall or amazon and (in many cases) not pay tax any day of the year (yes, I know there are now some states where that's no longer the case).
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pretty sure it is not legal in any state. May want to check your state tax return form. Probably asks something like "Did you make any purchases for which no sales tax was collected?" Just because the company doesn't have to collect it, doesn't mean you are not supposed to pay.

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B4U said:
Correction.
Sales tax are always collected from merchants for the sale.
The merchants then decided to transfer the responsibility to the consumers by charging them the tax.

Speaking of which, what about those of us out of state customers going into these states to buy the items?
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pretty sure you are wrong.
 
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