300 prices in Europe

Art · May 16, 2004

Karen Baron said:

I don't know if he'll win but the Kerry's avoid paying taxes on much of their
millions $$$ of investment income through tax free securities etc.
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And indeed in my opinion the law should be changed. On Fox news some idiot
was arguing that Kerry's wife should have voluntarily paid additional tax.
How stupid. People should pay only what is required but in my opinion work
should not be taxed more than investments. When you add in social security,
some of the poor are paying twice the tax rate as the riches in the US.
And, by the way, tax free bonds are not taxed but the returns are very
low..... basically they finance the US debt.

rickety · May 17, 2004

Karen said:

rickety said:

Dori said:

Just like you can get North American sales tax back on the export of
some items. Recently I was very (pleasantly) surprised I could get
a tax refund on my hotel room costs when leaving Toronto. I am
pretty sure the equivalent on leaving the EU is not possible.

DAS

I know roughly how it worked and in some cases, a tourist can get a
refund after paying a VAT and taking an item out of the country.
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Generally you can get VAT refunds when leaving a country that levies
VAT. Most airports have VAT reclaim places where you take your
paperwork. It normally has to be hand-carried goods (so they can see
you really took them) and there is normally a minimum below which
you can't claim.

It used to be true in the US too, though it was a non-charged item
rather than a rebate. I got it removed from an sale of a car radio
into a Canadian registered car. I think it is because technically it
should only be levied on residents of the state.
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Generally residence is not relevant. However, the state doesn't
charge sales tax on items being exported out of state. Usually the
only way to do this is to have the item shipped by common carrier;
you were lucky.

With a more mobile populace these days, I wonder
is that is still the legal position. You know when buying goods over
the internet or mail order, sales tax seems to be charged normally
only if delivery is to the same state as the distribution point.
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The US Supreme Court has ruled* that destination jurisdiction's sales
tax only needs to be collected by a retailer if they have a physical
nexus in that state. However the buyer would still be responsible
for paying the equivalent use tax to their state or other tax
collector. Still many companies, such as Dell Computer, are now
collecting sales tax for all states. With so many tax rates, local
sales taxes, and an extremely wide variation on what is/isn't taxable
in each jurisdiction, this can be quite complicated. I have read
that there are 7,500 jurisdictions in USA that charge various
percentages of a sale at retail.

*See National Bellas Hess, Inc., 386 U.S. 753 (1967); Quill Corp v
State of North Dakota., 504 U.S. 298 (1992).
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Thanks Karen for the info

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