The State of Connecticut in the past has managed to get hold of records
(47st photo in particular) and gone after people who purchased and did not
pay taxes.
>From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] Re: Is Olympus going bankrupt? Am I a creditor?
>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:26:32 -0400
>
>
>Actually.....
>
>They are not obligated to collect the sales tax, but YOU are obligated to
>remit it to the State of Georgia as a Use Tax. No one does, but
>technically
>you're not paying your taxes.
>
>Tom
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Dacey" <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:13 AM
>Subject: [OM] Re: Is Olympus going bankrupt? Am I a creditor?
>
>
> >
> > On 8/18/05, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Actually, fortunately for me, no taxes are involved, because I live in
> >> Georgia and ordered the gear from New York. Generally, because sales
> >> taxes in the U.S. are state taxes, they're collected only when the
>seller
> >> has a place of business in the same state as the point of delivery,
> >> whether delivery is hand-to-hand or shipped by UPS, Fed-X, et al.
>That's
> >> one of the biggest incentives I have for buying from B&H, Adorama, and
> >> Calumet: none of them have a store in Georgia. By not buying the E-1,
> >> 14-54 and LWMNBN in Atlanta, I saved something like $180 in sales
>taxes.
> >> I consider that a good trade-off for $30 in shipping costs and a
>four-day
> >> wait. :-)
> >
> > As far as I know, it's different in Canada. I always pay federal and
> > provincial sales tax for my province regardless of where the item came
> > from. So even if I ordered an item from Alberta (which has no
> > provincial sales tax) I'd pay 15% tax instead of just the 7% federal
> > sales tax.
> >
> > Gets a little interesting with international stuff because the customs
> > people are supposed to charge tax on it but sometimes you get lucky
> > and they don't or you get the item declared in such a way that their
> > not supposed to tax you on it ("used camera returned from warranty
> > service" is a nice one to use). On the downside, they also have the
> > right to assess the item at a different value than the declared value
> > and tax it accordingly. I once had an Olympus (see on topic!) macro
> > flash shoe ring arrive from the US and was taxed as if the item was
> > worth several hundred dollars even though I only paid around $50 and
> > that was the declared value. You can appeal the assessment but it's a
> > long and slow process. I had just received $600 worth of OM gear a
> > couple weeks before and not been taxed at all on that so I figured it
> > all balanced out and didn't pursue it.
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