The Kansas sales and use tax rate is 4.9 percent. You'll want to check and see if you are exempt from the sales tax. Responsibility for paying sales tax. In Kansas the sales tax is imposed upon the purchaser and paid to the seller. The seller is responsible for collecting and remitting the tax.
Sales tax is a debt owed to the retailer by the purchaser until paid.
If this requirement is not met, it will be presumed that the tax was not collected by the retailer. In Kansas the use tax supplements the sales tax. The use tax is levied upon people that are using, storing, or consuming in Kansas any article of tangible personal property that has not been subjected to sales or use tax by any state. Responsibility for collecting use tax. The responsibility of the use tax is upon the consumer.