Talk:Sales tax

message: Article reads, "In the United States, it is nearly always explicitly added on and not included in the price, a notable exception is sales taxes on gasoline."
Do we want to refer to gasoline excise taxes at the pump in the US as "sales tax"?  Thank you.  Have Gun, Will Travel 02:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always known it as an excise. Morphh  (talk) 03:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Me too.  I see Sales tax has a cleanup tag; I'll probably try giving it a work over (unless you got any other suggestions?).  Thanks.  Have Gun, Will Travel 17:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, sales tax is included at the pump due to the fungible nature of the commodity. No one dispenses the same amount each time, so it's easier to simply tack on the sales tax as the gas is pumped. Technically speaking, the pump price in most states includes BOTH sales tax and a state excise tax, plus the federal excise tax. A dollar amount is the basis of the sales tax, whereas a gallon measure is the basis for the state and federal excise taxes. 8-15-07 --Marc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.122.213.254 (talk) 16:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sales tax or Excise tax? 

message: Can any one add information about origin of Sales tax? Thanks --72.146.173.208 23:13, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When the USA was young, Britain had taxes and made everyone pay them. They noticed that not everyone was paying, so they put sales tax so that people had to pay for whatever they bought. It was an inexcusable action, but they didnt care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.157.6 (talk) 23:38, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of Sales Tax?

message: So how does a sale tax vendor work out if you are the final end user? On a VAT system, everyone pays VAT on all purchases, and businesses can then pay the difference between collected and paid VAT. Under a sales tax, what stops someone from buying a computer for work use - presumably paying no sales tax - and then using it for private use? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.231.99 (talk) 07:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would hope the jail time and/or the closing of the business when they were caught for tax evasion.  Most sales tax systems require detailed record keeping by business, which are audited by the taxing authority.  Sales tax laws vary on what can be purchased and how and by what type of company.  Small items like a computer may be something easily evaded and is likely an acceptable and expected level of evasion, which would be a minor impact to the tax base.  Morphh  (talk) 14:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The first argument would not be using company assets to bypass paying the sales tax as presented. All companies, with the exception of government entities, pay a sales tax for computer purchases unless they are a reseller of said computer and not the end-user. Assuming the the first posting suggests that Company A purchases Brand B computer for company use then that company would have paid at least the state portion of the sales tax and most likely also the locality tax (based on agreements with state/local governements for business/employment establishment). Private use of that same computer would fall under either theft or company policy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.43.232 (talk) 14:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This point to follow is in regard to the US.  Everyone is charged tax unless they present the seller with a resale certificate stating that the product purchased is for resale.  (There are additional industry and use specific exemption certificates avilable too).  If the buyer purchases computers and some are for resale and some are for internal use, the buyer has the choice of telling the seller which ones are for which purpose and paying the tax on the invoices that are for internal use.  Because of the difficulty and confusion this would cause the seller, it is generally not handled it in this way.  This is where "Use Tax" comes into play.  Every business must be registered to collect and report sales and use tax in any state in which they have a presence (read: physical presence such as an office, warehouse, etc.).  If they receive something that does not have tax included on the invoice, they are supposed to calculate the tax due to the state and local municipalities and report and pay it on their monthly sales and use tax return.  You are correct in that the state has no way of knowing whether businesses have been paying their use taxes accordingly until they go in and audit the business.  Undercompliance is not as rampant as one might think however, because generally speaking most companies fear the threat of an audit and the associated penalty and interest that would be due from a tax underpayment.  Large corporations are continuously being audited by the states in which they operate; as soon as one sales and use tax audit ends, a new one begins.  The statute of limitation for how far back a state can look for underpayments is generally 3 years in the US, although a few states have longer statutes of limitation.Agiletax (talk) 13:03, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final end user and sales tax coverage 

message: it is the extra amount charged on the sale and purchase of goods and services it is also said that value added tax means vat and the other form is g.s.t it means general sales tax with two aspacts it can be calculated on purchases and other on sales for sales it is output tax and forpurchases it will be inputtax/////////////  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.2.150.70 (talk) 09:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sales tax 

message: I removed "retail transaction taxes" from the list of other types of sales taxes, because it seems to be just another label for the "retail sales tax." The description in the reference looked indistinguishable from the definition of retail sales tax. 
If somebody can provide a definition for "retail transaction tax" that is clearly different from the "retail sales tax," please add "retail transaction tax" back into the list with that definition. Folklore1 (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The description of the VAT makes no sense. Purchasers don't charge a price: "Tax cascading is avoided by applying the tax only to the difference ("value added") between the price charged by the purchaser and the price charged by the seller." Does it mean something like: "price paid and charged by the retailer" ? Or what? Noloop (talk) 19:37, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I revised the VAT description to more clearly explain how it avoids tax cascading. Folklore1 (talk) 16:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types of Sales Tax 

message: After revising the text and adding some references to this section, I removed the Refimprove and Wikify tags. If you would like to see some other improvements to this section, please leave a note. Folklore1 (talk) 15:30, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales tax planning 

message: This article appears to be very similar to Sales taxes in the United States. It makes no serious attempt to discuss non-US sales taxes and so fails on criterion #3 of the WP:WIAGA. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:08, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it focus too much on the United States? Should some of the US material be trimmed? Folklore1 (talk) 16:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

text: Should some of the material in this article be merged into Sales taxes in the United States? Perhaps it would be more useful to leave Sales tax as a small, less than Good article, and try to upgrade Sales taxes in the United States to GA status? That would certainly be easier, because too much source material about sales tax in other countries is non-English. Folklore1 (talk) 16:49, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA nomination 

message: A sales tax is a tax paid by the seller to a government body. That's why it's called a sales tax. When the tax is paid directly to the governing body by the consumer, it is called a use tax. However, usually laws governing sales tax allow (or require) the seller to collect funds from the buyer for the tax. If the seller fails to collect the funds from the consumer, the seller is still responsible for paying the sales tax in most cases.
This is a subtle distinction but for accuracy and clarity it should be stated in the lead and more clearly explained in the rest of the article. Sparkie82 (t•c)  23:48, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sparkie82 (t•c)  00:16, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The seller pays the tax to the state 

message: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umsatzsteuer  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.160.157 (talk) 13:30, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to German article