Any telecommuting fpDevelopers watching this?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Ken Brody propounded (on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:25:23AM -0500):
| Quoting Walter Vaughan (Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:20:46 -0500):
| 
| > Seems the state of New York thinks that it has nexis[0] if you remotely
| > perform work  for a company located in NY. While at first glance this is
| > a reasonable request of the state, it's probably apply to independent
| > contractors soon.
| >
| >
| http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/29/2347245.shtml?tid=98&tid=123&tid=103&tid=17
| 
| As a New Yorker, I'm not surprised at this.  Last year the state said
| you have to pay New York sales tax on items bought outside of the state
| but used within the state.  (And not just things bought through the mail,
| but everything.  If you go on vacation and buy something and bring it back
| to New York, you need to pay New York sales tax.)

Whaddya mean "last year"?  It has *always* been a Sales and Use Tax.
If you buy something not meant for resale, meaning you buy it as its
ultimate user, New York has always expected that the merchant collected
and remitted the Sales Tax, if that merchant was in New York, else that
the buyer himself owed the equivalent Use Tax..

I imagine that New York (or any other state with such a Use Tax
counterpart to its Sales Tax) has been mostly unsuccessful in collecting
it, with one salient exception: if you buy a car outside of New York,
you will assuredly remit the Use Tax when you seek to register the
vehicle.

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JP