Posted by pcher1bw on March 14, 2012 at 8:49pm
Does anyone know of a Missouri State Sales Tax Ubercart module? I have a client that is starting to do business in Missouri and the client wants the website to keep track of Missouri Sales Tax.
Thanks for any help!
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There's a new member of the
There's a new member of the group who just arrived from Missouri. I'll ask him if he knows anything about this the next time I talk with him.
Point him or me in the right direction
Hi Christefano,
If you know his gdo user name can you tell me so I can contact him, or ask him to contact me?
Paul
Paul Chernick
CEO
Chernick Consulting
(310) 569-2517
There is nothing contributed
There is nothing contributed as of right now, though I think this is a great idea and would be interested in working on something for this purpose as long as the company sponsoring it would be willing to let it become a public project upon completion. Missouri has some interesting rules on how sales tax and "use tax" is calculated and I've had to deal with it in several instances.
If you are not familiar with the difference between sales tax and "use tax" you can read up on it more here:
http://dor.mo.gov/business/sales/
The rest of my post was considered spam? So I put up a blog post about it on my site here:
http://chrispaul.us/missouri-sales-and-use-tax
Chris.
Use tax versus sales tax
Chris,
Thank you for the info. I may contact you about starting the project.
California also has a use tax as well as a sales tax. If I buy a computer or software from out of state I'm supposed to pay use tax on that product.
Paul.
Paul Chernick
CEO
Chernick Consulting
(310) 569-2517
Talk at Downtown meetup
Chris,
If you come to the Downtown meetup early I'll buy you a beer and we can talk.
Is it possible for you to present something about working on modules at the downtown meetup, we're a little short of presentations because of DrupalCon.
Paul
Paul Chernick
CEO
Chernick Consulting
(310) 569-2517
I'd love to. Did you have a
I'd love to. Did you have a specific angle in mind? I've not done a presentation in some time. Also, I'll be at Droplabs nearly all day anytime I'm going to be at a meetup because of the long drive from where I stay.
Use tax in California has a calendar year minimum too, and it's much higher than Missouri, $10,000 I think. So most use tax in California is for B2B sales or when a company uses a warehouse in Cali to regionalize shipping (is that even a word? lol!)
Chris.
Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for sharing this information! For what it's worth, I think posting the information in a blog post will make it easier for the general community to find. Well done.
groups.drupal.org uses Mollom to filter out spam and ham. It probably thought your post had too many links in it.
In CA, the only difference
In CA, the only difference between "sales" and "use" tax is who has to pay it to the state. Sellers with nexus in CA (and other local jurisdictions) must collect sales tax from buyers who take possession of goods in CA and send it to the state. Buyers who take possession of good in CA, but the seller did not collect the tax (out of state Internet companies, etc.) are required to pay the tax to the state themselves, usually on their annual income tax return. There is no "minimum" sales or purchase thresholds. The "$10,000" mentioned earlier is minimum revenue received by out of state companies that pay a fee to affiliates or other consultants to generate those sales into CA (like Amazon). Amazon, and others that "qualify", have to start collecting this for CA sales on 1 September of this year if I remember correctly. There is also a "rumor" that Amazon is on the hook for all past uncollected sales tax, and may have to release the names and addresses of buyers from CA to the state tax authorities as part of the agreement. Amazon is trying to get an initiative on the ballot to defeat their requirement to collect the sales tax. CA's tax board has set up an "amnesty" program for buyers to pay the last three years "use" tax and "possibly" avoid audit and collection fees and fines.
James Sinkiewicz
Drupal Site Builder and Generalist
http://MyDrupalJourney.com
Ok, Now I'm confused...
As far as I can see, the first stipulation of being a "Qualified Purchaser" is to have over $100,000 in gross receipts (whether in OR out of state) during a calendar year. This is noted at the following links:
http://www.boe.ca.gov/taxprograms/qualified_purchaser/qualifications.html
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqusetax.htm#3
While it is NOT as clear here:
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqtaxrate.htm#1
http://www.boe.ca.gov/info/eut.htm
That said, It would indeed appear that you are correct after further decoding of this cryptic system, a Qualified Purchaser is used to define a person that pays enough use tax to require an ongoing account with the BOE, as opposed to remitting taxes owed on their annual tax filing.
Further reading on the subject here:
http://www.taxabletalk.com/2010/02/16/the-use-tax-mess-in-california/
Again though, my knowledge of California Tax Law is far less than that of Missouri where I have conducted business for many years.
(And even with that, I do not claim to be a tax pro and could have been wrong the whole time! Though I've not been scolded in an audit as of yet.)
Chris.