[asterisk-biz] Sales Tax -

[John Rousseau]

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.

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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