[asterisk-biz] Sales Tax -

[C F]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:33 AM, John Rousseau <john at vvpusa.net> wrote:
> So, If I have a resellers tax ID in the State of Kansas City, MO I should be
> charging sales tax on the dollars of revenue that I collect.  Everywhere
> else, is up in the air for interpretation by each state.

Exactly, including in your home state MO which is also up in the air
for interpretation.

>
> Thank you for your answers..  :)
>
> GTX.
>
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>
> First off, please do realize I am not an attorney and this is NOT legal
> advice but some practical experience that I had in my home state of NJ. The
> ideology behind a states sales tax program is that its their bread and
> butter, the biggest income generator. Therefore they will enforce and
> interpret the law the way they see fit to suit them best, if you don't like
> it go and fight city hall. They use you the merchant as the collection
> agency for all that and therefore see it as you stealing their money if you
> didn't pay it to them.
>
> Now about sales tax on telecommunications (again for NJ to my knowledge). If
> the service is delivered to a NJ address (if it's VoIP then technically it's
> not) you have to charge sales tax. If the bill is delivered to a NJ address
> even if it's VoIP then you have to charge sales tax. The only exception
> would be that if it's VoIP and the bill is delivered to a NJ address but the
> telecommunications provider is not registered in state of NJ then you don't
> have to collect sales tax. If however its not VoIP (like UNEP etc.) you
> would have to register with the state of NJ and collect sales tax.
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Rousseau <john at vvpusa.net> wrote:
>> I purchased a portion of a company that does Hosted PBX Services over
>> Asterisk. We have several customers in Kansas City, one in Texas and
>> one in Tennessee. There are ones and two's across the states here and
>> there. The company that I purchased this from, looking through all the
>> invoices, they did not charge sales tax.
>>
>> Do I have to charge my customers sales tax if my services are from SIP
>> providers like compartners, or Level 3 or global crossings?
>>
>> The way that it was told to me was, I am a Nomatic Voice over IP
>> company.  I am asking this as a very General question.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely
>> Gtx Communications
>>
>>
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