He called corporate and they told him, ‘That guy is right.’ We have been doing it wrong for a couple of months now. It so happened that the same clerk rang us up.Ĭlerk: “You were the one who explained the sales tax to me, right?”Ĭlerk: “I told our manager what you told me.
So, charge me the sales tax according to the rate in this town.”Ī few weeks later, we were back in that store and purchased an item. Because this item is being delivered into my hands, in your store, in your town, that is the point of delivery for the zip code to charge sales tax. I’m an accountant, and the new law requires you to charge sales tax by zip code at the point of delivery. Me: “You don’t need it for this purchase.” I knew why but chose to ask the reason.Ĭlerk: “We need the zip code so we can charge the correct sales tax, according to the new state law that identifies the sales tax rate by the zip code of the customer.”
As my purchase was being put in the register, the clerk asked for my zip code. My wife and I shopped in a home improvement store in the next town over.
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