Sales tax

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:22 pm

Very good post, Dusty! Death and Taxes - they will happen to all of us. Taxes even happen after death, as we have learned in settling estates. Wouldn't it be a surprise to have our kids saddled with past due sales taxes along with penalties?

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:57 pm

cincinnati wrote:Here is a post on Sawmill Creek on the exact subject. Post number 48 is from the President of Grizzly tools and explains it well.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=80594

Looks like the rules are starting to be enforced.

Thank you cincinnati, the President of Grizzly verified everything that I have been saying.

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:35 am

True to form, Indiana sales tax increased to 7% effective today (and that's no joke!)

BPR

curiousgeorge · Post by **curiousgeorge** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:51 pm

Ours is 8.25 and going up!!!!

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:40 pm

0% let me repeat 0%, we have NO SALES TAX and when we travel to Washington we don't pay sales tax there either (at least for stuff we can take home).

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:35 am

Here in Washington the tax rate varies widely. As of today, most people in King County (the county that includes Seattle) are paying 9%. If you buy anything at a restaurant, or lodge in a hotel/motel etc., anywhere in King county, you will pay 9.5%. That extra .5% is to pay for the Mariners ball park that King County decided to build even after the good citizens voted not to finance such a building. I believe that is taxation without representation, no, make that taxation with misrepresentation. You can view this .pdf file for all of our state sales tax rates: http://dor.wa.gov/docs/forms/ExcsTx/LocSalUseTx/LocalSlsUseFlyer_Quarterly.pdf

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:42 am

a1gutterman wrote:Here in Washington the tax rate varies widely. As of today, most people in King County (the county that includes Seattle) are paying 9%. If you buy anything at a restaurant, or lodge in a hotel/motel etc., anywhere in King county, you will pay 9.5%. That extra .5% is to pay for the Mariners ball park that King County decided to build even after the good citizens voted not to finance such a building. I believe that is taxation without representation, no, make that taxation with misrepresentation. You can view this .pdf file for all of our state sales tax rates: http://dor.wa.gov/docs/forms/ExcsTx/LocSalUseTx/LocalSlsUseFlyer_Quarterly.pdf

I guess you just need an Oregon Drivers License, they don't change me any sales tax when I visit.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:31 am

In Arizona, long term gainful employment equals Arizona Driver's License. Arizona driver's license equals Arizona taxes. Also, it is illegal to have multiple driver's licenses. Maybe I now know why?

All we really need is more law enforcement. Maybe taxes are higher than they need to be because of all the people who avoid paying their fair share.

Do your elected officials represent this "tax avoidance" way of thinking? If they do, what are they doing to change the laws? Are you actively supporting any movement to strike down the tax laws that you believe are "unfair" or inappropriate? If you are, good for you - keep up doing what you believe in. If not, just pay it.

Let's Get Back to Making Sawdust.

This is a woodworking forum. That is something that I believe in and that I am about to begin "actively supporting".

Go read twenty posts to this forum (selected at random) and I believe you will find that we are talking about "nonshop" issues more than is appropriate on a woodworking forum.

I fear that this forum is beginning to go the way of many others. Maybe, just maybe we really know why reible is no longer in the group.

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:14 am

Dusty-

I just looked up the description for this section of the forum. It describes the Community section as an "area not necessarily related to woodworking". When I place a post or respond I place it into the appropriate category. If there is a tool I use that I think others might not know about, I'll post it in the Tool Review section. If I have questions about woodworking, I prefer to post in either the General or beginning Woodworking sections. I honestly do not see what the harm is about letting others vent their frustrations. There is an old saying that "nothing is certain in life except death and taxes". While we cant do anything about the former, there's certainly something that can be done about the latter. All I would like Shopsmith to do is simply stop collecting sales tax in states where there is not a physical presence (TA's stand out as an example).

For all of the discussion that has gone on on this subject, I would suspect that it is not going to go away until the sales tax issue is directly addressed at Shopsmith. With other mail-order and web places that I have ordered from, Shopsmith is the only one that charges sales tax. Since that is based on a percentage of the cost of the item plus the shipping and handling on a state by state basis, I would assume that sales from Shopsmith would increase as a result of not collecting sales tax. I also believe it would help those who may be on a fixed income.

Well, break time is over. Time to get back to work.

BPR

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:35 am

You are absolutely correct. The community section of this forum is for topics not neccessarily directly related to woodworking. However, the other three sections are for woodworking topics.

Go read them BPR and come back to tell me what you find.

As I stated earlier, I fear that this forum is going the way of many others. It is growing rapidly in number but is also becoming less and less a woodworking forum. After all, it is the Shopsmith forum; I would think that the vast majority of the discussion on the Shopsmith Forum would somehow directly relate to the Shopsmith.