[Shop-talk] Tig Welder

[Bob Spidell]

No problemo. 

Bob 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 



Hey Bob, 

I wasn't trying to be snarky or anything, my email was more from my surprise at this guy getting reamed. 

Your understanding of the issue is correct--states are only required to collect if the company has a nexus in the state of sale. What state Departments of Revenue are doing is going to the company and getting customer detail and requesting payments those customers 'forgot' to make. 

That's nothing new, they've just ramped up the activity. I think they're looking for some heads on pikes, so to speak. 

I was just thinking about it yesterday, then we were talking about lifts. I'm thinking now I might go to the local dealer and see if they can match the online price, or get close. That's a big-ticket individual item. I don't know that the DoR would ever catch up with that sale, but that seems to be the population they're examining--relatively few sales for 'larger' amounts by a small-ish vendor they can intimidate. 

This is not at all a scolding or anything of that nature, more just me being a little wow-ed and not wanting any of y'all to find yourselves on the bad end of one of those notices, or at least to be fully informed. 

Oh, yeah, I'm an accountant.